We went for a walk around 8.45pm as the temperature had cooled a little and on the greenway behind our house, we met a nice lady in her dressing gown standing underneath a tree. She was calling to something in the tree which we naturally thought was a cat, as you do, trying to encourage it to come down. As we got closer and as a way in to conversation by the lady she said she doesn't always stand around in public in her towelling robe talking to trees and as we walked up to her, we heard all these strange noises coming from said tree. She said don't worry if you hear lots of swearing as it does that when stressed. Giggling - slightly nervously - we still hadn't seen the 'creature' until walking passed her and up in the tree was a glorious big red and blue parrot making lots of noise and bobbing up and down as they do. He quite often escapes she said but obviously doesn't go far and likes to sit on her shoulder when she wears the towelling robe.
So next time you are out roaming the streets at night, don't jump to conclusions if you see women dressed a little weirdly talking to trees!
We have been very multi cultural too today and I have spoken with people from England, America, Singapour, Australia, Czech Republic and France - the French man couldn't speak a word of English so I spoke to him in my school girl French which he thought was very good and chatted to me slowly so I could understand him and chat back in French. How's that for a change! and we sold him an adapter for his iPad!
Now it is nearly time to go and head over to Jeanette and Greg's, musn't forget to take the cake out of our fridge and hope the coffee ganache icing doesn't melt on the way.
I had better go or the boss might sack me!
TTFN xxx
We counted the rings and it was 28 years old give or take a few years either way and it is a shame really but it was about 30 feet high and still growing. The team did a great job and left us with a great stack of wood to go on the fire so although it cost £300 to cut it down, it has saved us £150 in wood so it was a bargain. Lindsay and Glynis from across the road said they were so good and were here for seven hours so it's not a bad price anyway and they took away the rest of the stuff.
Of course it couldn't all stay at the front of the house so I moved it one log at a time (they were very heavy some of them) to the side of the house to dry out for the fire next winter. They have to have rain, sun and frost on them to make the sap run so they will burn and not spit too much or make lots of smoke - I had plenty of advice from the neighbs and offers of chainsaws etc to chop it up into manageable pieces for the fire which we will have to do later. Think I will let Derek do that! Bye for now (so lovely to speak to Mum, Kathy and Becky this morning - big hugs to all of you xxxxx) TTFN xxx |