At 7.30am this morning a truckload of blokes turn up to remove a Camphour Laurel from our yard. We have two Camphour Laurels. One is big, and one is enormous. I'm sure that the enormous one can be seen from the moon. So, these blokes are staring at the enormous one at which point I say - that's not the one you're taking down. Crikey, that's a relief one guy says, That's not the sort of tree you want to take down on a Monday morning.
So in between rain showers these guys spend the entire day slicing into the big Camphour Laurel. Our council is very reluctant to give permission to pull down a tree, especially one this size, but it was suffering from Dieback and was dropping branches - the most recent on Friday night. As you can imagine from the size of the stump (above) the branches were not small.
While all that was going on a friend and I took our kids to an Aquatic Centre. Not a local one you understand but one that I needed to test out Firegazer's new Navman (GPS) getting to and from. The GPS worked. It was even fun and I may not give it back.
As it was still cold and rainy in the afternoon after we got back from the pool Blossom and I made some of Nana's Jam Drops.
They went down very well with Padawan Learner who has eaten 5 at last count.
While all that was going on a friend and I took our kids to an Aquatic Centre. Not a local one you understand but one that I needed to test out Firegazer's new Navman (GPS) getting to and from. The GPS worked. It was even fun and I may not give it back.
They went down very well with Padawan Learner who has eaten 5 at last count.
Tomorrow: the kids go to a knitting class...hee hee (while I spend their meagre inheritance in the store)
6 comments:
they look delicious..recipe please???
HHMMM..who is Blossom? I don't recallyou ever speaking of Blossom other than the last week or so.
I am terribly sorry if I haven't been paying enough attention to your posts in the past. Best you give me a quick run down.
Feel just a tad silly that I didn't realise you had a Blossom.
Oh BTW....the jam drops look way good!
Blossom is KelpieBlossom, my 9 and three-quarter years old tween. A nickname for a nickname, if you will.
I'll post the recipe for the jam drops soon. I made a double batch but I fear even that won't last long.
It's finally gone, the tree that is, not your sanity I hope in the midst of your MLC. Speaking of which any good ideas yet? Let me know if any come up and I might join you and have my MLC early so I can just turn 40 with it already over and done with. Does a trip to the snow with the girls count?
Spending the meagre inheritance on wool cracked me up.
That's why I couldn't work it out. You dropped the Kelpie. Just as I opened this this morning I realised.
I'm a tad slower than the tortise lately.
Sorry.
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