Today eight troop from the SBS (Special Balsam Service) bent their backs and vanished into the undergrowth on a search and destroy mission vis a vis Himalayan Balsam.
Three back breaking hours and umpteen sackfuls later and there is still HB everywhere. Its almost like an invasive weed. What am I saying, it IS an invasive weed.
Two weeks of this and the troops are revolting ( pause, wait for inevitable joke), so next week they will take a week off and doing something else ). I also will take a week off (so they have a double bonus) and go up to London instead (Mark Knopfer - Albert Hall). I must remember to avoid any parks or places where HB grows, don’t want to be done for despoiling the Buckingham Palace gardens.