Old ways

Slower, but less damaging. In reality, there would have been more men involved in the process. And they might have cut the meadow before it was flattened by rain.

I had had an unexpected free afternoon so I went to find the scything teacher at a festival to see if he had time to help peen my scythe (he did).

A lovely drive out along the Lang Whang and round the western edge of the Pentlands down to Biggar then Broughton then Merlindale.