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Little bit of progress on the cardigan and on writing.

Can I ask badly_knitted for some gooseberry advice? So I have one singular gooseberry bush that I acquired earlier in the year. I'd been keeping a close eye on it, following your battles earlier in the year with the caterpillars until... We had a few days of absolutely torrential rain and then I was working really long days - when I looked out of the window last Wednesday, all of a sudden my nicely growing beginning to look like it's establishing itself gooseberry bush looks devastated! So on Thursday I went out and before work, I pulled off about 100+ caterpillars. I went out at lunch and found another 12 - 15 and the following morning I found about 5 more. I've been checking it daily since, despite my ridiculously long work hours at the moment and haven't seen anymore. But what do I do now, do I cut it right back down and hope it grows up again with leaves etc or do I leave as is and hope it can re-establish itself from where it is? This is my first attempt at growing any kind of berry bush so I'm an absolute dunce at this point and open to suggestions for saving it.