Road kill in Redditch

This morning started with a visit from a local tree surgeon.  30% had arranged the appointment, so I am unsure how much information was exchanged, but he turned up at the gate, looked up at the Ash, and said "is this it?"

I confirmed that it was and that we wanted a quote for felling it, chipping the brash, and cutting the trunk and boughs in to manageable pieces. We want all of the tree to remain on-site, as the shippings will be used as mulch in the garden, and the wood will be logged and stored for use in the log burner.*

The tree surgeon confirmed that he was happy to oblige and advised that it was going to take a couple of days to complete the job. He also advised that there was a lot of weight in the tree, and it would definitely need to be brought down in small sections.  We await his quote with interest.**

The only other activity in the morning was my usual walk with the dogs.

The afternoon started with a post-prandial nap, before I grabbed one of the less favoured mowers from the shed.  The reason for using one of the more battered mowers, was that I had decided to mow the veg patch.  Having killed off the weeds, I would then, normally, break out the rotorvator, but it seemed more sensible to get the, now dead, weeds chopped up, before rotorvating their remains in to the ground.

I can report that the simple act of mowing the veg patch has made it look much better, and rotorvating will be a complete transformation. Hopefully I will get that done at some point over the weekend.

This evening saw us back at the Redditch Catering College restaurant. It was a wild food themed menu, *** and our dining companions were Mr & Mrs Tweedy.  Once again I have to report that the food was fabulous. I had a duck liver parfait to start, followed by a ragout of rabbit and ham hock, served with pasta. Both were beautiful. I finished with another panna cotta.  It was ok, but not a patch on the one I had last week.

I swear that I need to schedule a quieter day for tomorrow.

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* We have also realised that felling the Ash tree, removes the shade from the roofs of the garage and outbuildings. It may be time to reconsider a small solar array?

** 30% is hoping that it will be under £3K. I think that's a reasonable guesstimate.

*** We are talking about Redditch here, so wild food is probably more accurately described as road kill and dead cat!