It’s a photo of a fire we lit in the paddock next door. It’s burning gorse and pampus. Got an idiot neighbour who used to use this particular piece of land to graze some sheep in. The land belongs to a guy up in Auckland who said he could graze it FREE. Yeah, with a deal like that you would think he would at least maintain the land. No bloody way, he just let the gorse go rampart. Oh hang on, he did get some guys in to spray it once, then sent the owner the bill. Inflated I might add. Well that didn’t go down well with the owner. Anyway this shit just kept spreading over a couple years and was getting closer to my boundary, so I contacted the owner and asked if I could do something about it. He agreed to me cleaning it up and grazing it if I wanted. As you can imagine it didn’t go down too well with his nibs when I fenced it off, cut a hole in the boundary fence and put a gate in, then started cutting it down. Fuck, even got accused of being a bully. He gets on the phone and rings Auckland only to be told if he don’t like it, get out. That’s not what he told me the answer was though. He’s a cocky little turd, 1/2 my weight and size and got stroppy in the pub one night. Well I cut the lot down and piled it up into lots then me and a boy, one on the bike, used to have a few beers then go and light up a pile on occasions. Even had the fire brigade turn up once to see what we were upto. Couple of clowns standing there with a garden hose in one hand and a beer in the other, we had things under control. Next big burn off I did contact fire com first. So I have cleaned up this small patch while the other 6 acres keeps growing gorse and thistles. When the gorse spreads deeper into the paddock, idiot just puts another fence up made up of real old dumped fence netting scrounged out of some farm tip, whatever might hold it up, and tied together with baling twine. Check the photos. Yep cutting that shit down has paid off. Besides grazing it with a few sheep it has got rid of the mice coming into my aviaries and improved my health. Will take about 7 years to get rid of it totally, but it gives me something to do as well. Never used to be gorse in there until the twat started grazing the place. Hahaha he tells people that he owns the land and I keep telling people to use it as a short cut. It pisses him off.