Claudia has yet another set of new wheels this time taking charge of the motor mower and giving the first fairway its first cut. Driving the mower is not as easy as it would appear as the machine has rear wheel steering and handles very differently to a car. Jon says she was brilliant and wasn't put off even when it started to snow heavily. Apparently it has been bitterly cold again with snow on and off all day yesterday though fortunately it didn't settle. The top picture shows the first fairway after it has been mown and is taken from a position just to the right of the tee.
Elsewhere on the course, Jon has been rotovating the greens but had a bit of trouble when the rotovator would not break through the ground in places. This meant he needed all his digger driving skills to carefully remove the top inch of soil using the bucket.
Jon and Claudia have noticed lots of wildlife around the course and the cottage. They found a badger sett in the woods and Jon was nearly knocked over by an enormous hare the other day. Deer have been grazing in the cottage garden...will they save Jon from having to cut the grass, a job he has just realised will need to be done over the summer!
