Drama in our little garden...

As the gale hit and we hurried back from shopping to find our neighbour's trampoline
had flipped right over the hedge like a giant pancake and landed upside down in our garden! Balls everywhere!

Our clever neighbour saw that the roots on our apple tree were lifting 3-4 cm out of the ground at times! 

So Christina sat on the trampoline and held on hard and called reinforcements, Jakob grabbed a
saw and started giving the tree a short back and sides to reduce the wind resistance - and I shut Watson out of the way and took pictures.

While the wind roared, it got dark and the neighbours hurried to dismantle
the trampoline before it took off again...

...Jakob continued lopping off branches and trying to make sure
they didn't land on the neighbours' heads.

And this morning, though there's not much of the tree, it has survived and
 from experience we know it will be shooting up like crazy next year :o).

Several hours later, Watson and I have been cutting up the branches ready for recycling in our stove.
While out for a walk, Watson found another stray plastic ball that had flown right to
the other side of our housing estate. Well done Watson! 

Pumpkins?

We had planned to make a pumpkin last night but events rather overtook us. Don't worry. That post will be along soon :o)