Sunday

I went to church this morning with a box of toy animals and another of play people. Our curate - whose wife is expecting twins in August, had asked if I could keep an eye on his two year old son during the service. The little one did really well and was good fun.
After church one of our members came up at me quite upset saying that it looked as if someone had dumped some large branches into our (very productive) vegetable garden. I calmed her down and went and had a look. The actual problem was almost worse. A large branch of one of our sycamores had broken off, high up in the tree and some of it had come down, one piece into the garden and another onto the path outside, the rest was still hanging dangerously in the tree. It looks like the hall roof is damaged too. I let the congregation know and warned them to stay clear as the rest could fall at any time.
Once I got home I emailed a local tree surgeon and he got back to me a couple of hours later and said he could come out on Wednesday, so that's good news. We've let all the hall users know and will go out tomorrow to mark off the area. The last thing we need is someone being hurt by a falling branch. We think it must have happened on Thursday during the high winds.
I do wish other people would sometimes look to see what has happened, I can't be the only person capable!
Today was our US friends last day here, they came round in the afternoon and met up with Katy and her girls, Ali ran over later and met up with them too.
We went with them to view a flat in Belgrave Place later on, which was lovely. It came with a key to the East Dean Gardens so we went to have a look around as it's not a place which is open very often. My blip came from there. Google lens says it's a form of dogwood, the flowers are beautiful, about 3 inches across.
We all went out for a farewell meal this evening to Côte. The food was very tasty as always but there were several mistakes and delays which took the edge off the evening. I feel a letter of complaint coming on. I really am disappointed when things are not as they should be.
It's been good to have D&L with us, I wonder when we'll meet up next.