Frankinbush

I actually manage to have a lay in bed this morning until gone 10 am, and it's not often I do that, so I must have needed the sleep.

But, once I do get up, there is plenty to be doing. Phil has a number of things he'd like to do as well including trimming the conifers in the front garden. I guess it would be an easy task if they were like normal conifers that are easy to trim, but the ones we have are a bit different. It's hard to describe, but they grow in a very compact (almost egg like) form so if you remove a branch, then the whole tree looks like it's been moth eaten and it loses it's shape dramatically (or as Phil called suggested it would look like a "Frankinbush"). So obviously a saw isn't the solution to the problem, what we need is a hedge trimmer.

So we go get one, and at £20 it's cheap enough to be viable to buy, after all we probably will only ever use it once a year. We then pop into town as I've got to post my tax return, and after a quick amble around the shops its back off home.

Its not long after that Phil starts up his new toy it doesn't take too much time before he's cut the trees down to size, and they don't look half bad either.

Meanwhile I have to rescue Brutus who has got himself stuck under the fake coral thing in the triops tank.

The rest of the day is spent doing very little indeed, Phil goes for a snooze and I nip to the supermarket to pick something up for tea (curry yum yum). It's only after I've had tea I notice that Brutus' buddy hasn't been swimming around the tank so I go check out what's going on. It seems that when I rescued Brutus I accidentally squished his brother under the rock, so whilst he's still alive he's not looking good. I suspect he'll be dead by the morning :( So now I feel guilty and rightly so...

And after that it's the usual of sleep time, not forgetting that the clocks go back an hour tonight meaning we get an extra hour in bed tomorrow (not that it makes much difference on a Sunday).

Posted by Abi on the October 29, 2005 9:39 PM