Easter and stuff

A completely pointless holiday, really. A time for not very good chocolate. Oh well. And the shops all open at weird times.

I did, however, destroy a tree. Well, the remains of a tree. A tree in Phil's garden fell over. Not sure how, really. It's a very sheltered garden, not usually subject to strong winds. Plus there haven't been any strong winds anyway. I suspect a freak tornado. Or possibly the tree died of old age and suddenly just gave up and fell over. We discovered that a tree takes up a lot less space when it's standing upright than it does when it's fallen over and been cut up into lots of bits. One tree can cover most of the garden that way. And it's a bugger to try and cut them up with just a rusty saw to work with. Didn't lose any limbs, so that's a good thing. And avoided the common mistake of standing in the tree and cutting bits off below foot height. That tends to be either fatal or seriously embarassing.

And then we went for a little wander in some more trees yesterday, mainly to try and take some interesting pictures. Phil feels the need to experiment with his fancy new expensive camera. Took about 50 pictures and got half a dozen really good ones. Of course, the ones that should have turned out good didn't, and the good ones were actually surprising. I took about 5 and got 1 good one. So this means I'm better at taking pictures. Possibly.

The less said about the picture of me where I appear to be passing through a spooky portal into another dimension, the better.