It's that time of year

for the state forestry department to cut down trees close to the house but yet again not cut down the 20 or so trees directly alongside our property which sadly shades us in the winter from the sun after midday. In summer, there are enough deciduous trees on our side of the fence to make it very pleasant.

Other great part is that they cut down the trees on our section by hand trimming off the branches where the trees fall. Later the forwarder comes and makes huge deep ruts on the track and we spend 11 months trying to get the path halfway usable. If they used the "full harvest" machine, it would at least cut down the trees, pull the stem to the path and cut off the branches directly on the path, moving forward on this "carpet" and causing comparatively little damage. The ground is muddy as it is partcularly thanks to their "work" last year having blocked all the drains/streams. Added to this, this evening it started raining heavily and there is an orange weather warning for heavy rain of about 50 litres/m² in the next 24 hours. While the state forestry is still state owned it has been semi privatised so as to make as much money as possible, thus environmental management has been sacrificed!

The photo was taken from inside our garden.

Weather-wise mainly sunny with warm bits and until I finished outside at 7:00pm,mainly dry. Just like my normal, mainly good day - set off towards GP to get jabs but was held up in the parish council offices for good 30 minutes thinking it would take 3. Still a pleasant chat about this & that and the question I went in with remained unanswered (Responsible person on holiday). Time and action are not necessarily important in these parts and frankly thats OK by me, you just need to plan this in (but it can be frustrating!)Jabs will have to wait until Thursday.

Wish all especially the commuters sitting in the trains & tubes or M25 jam or behind Farmer Giles out for a slow inspection along the Somerset lanes, a wonderful stress free Wednesday - Mercury (Mercredi) is the patron god of mobile telephone users and travellers, so it promises to be a profitable day for someone when you are all phoning to find out the reasons for all the delays. My wheelbarrow doesn't need GPS or Twitter. The local sparrows and parish council employees keep us informed of all we need to know around here.