Dividing Line

This morning's weather sage was unable to predict which areas if any would benefit from brightness and which would remain grey and less appealing. Blacka Moor this morning wavered back and forth, the cloudy west sometimes pushing over and at other times the eastern promise prevailing.

This area to the south side of Blacka Hill is where SWT cut down and burnt a copse of mainly birch about 5 years ago. Since then the bracken has become firmly established, confirming the rightness of the usual advice to let well alone. Some of the birch is fighting back from the base but will have to work hard in record time to push the bracken back to where it was. In the middle of this area of bracken is a hollow often containing a pool of water. This is likely to have been an old quarry where stone was taken for the local walls.

Another misguided bit of management and planning was the decision taken many years ago to route an overhead electricity line across Blacka. Its unsightliness is mostly down to the imposition of straight lines cutting across the moor where everything else was satisfyingly unstraight.