Oh, what a beautiful morning!

I’m writing this at just gone 8.30 am and it’s a lovely sunny morning with a clear blue sky and very little wind. So it’s a beautiful day for doing, well, almost anything really. And it’s peaceful too.

Not that I expected it to be. By now I’d expected the peace to be destroyed by the sound of diesel engines and the clanking of heavy mechanical equipment because this is the day when the contractors are supposed to come to take down my lime tree.

With rain forecast for later, I’d have thought that it would have been a good idea to be on site bright and early to make a start while it’s still fine, but there’s no sign of them and there’s little to be heard apart from birdsong. The only sound of anyone or anything hard at work is that of a distant woodpecker. If my tree is still standing at the end of the day I’ll be very, very annoyed 😐