A new start after 60: ‘I took up hedgelaying at 65 and discovered a hidden connection with my father’

After a career in education, David Booker learned to ‘pleach’ – the ancient art of training hedges into secure boundaries. Then he found out his father had done the same work many years ago

ast November, when David Booker picked up a billhook for the first time, it felt uncannily familiar. The tool, a sort of stubby sickle, fitted so comfortably in his hand that he thought his handling of it “was there in me, ready and waiting to come out”. Now the tool has helped him to find a new sort of living – and unearthed a hidden connection with his father., or “pleaching” – the ancient rural art of cutting and training hedges into secure boundaries.

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