Hi all,
My mum is nutty about her trees.
She used to be a constant and very knowledgeable gardener.
Now at 87 she's forgotten most of what she used to know, now her love of the garden has turned into an unjustified hatred of one of our neighbours.
Every fallen tree, every dropped branch during a storm, is him; climbing over the fence to chop, saw, or otherwise damage our trees.
(He's also in his late eighties, there's no way he can climb fences. Lol!)
The trees that she's going on about now, fell down 5 years ago during a storm. They are too dangerous for my husband to attempt to cut off, or he'd have dealt with them before now.
So...
She says she's going in to town to talk to the council to find out what she can do about our neighbour.
She SAYS she's going to talk to the council in 'Hollytrees'.
Now... 'Hollytrees' is a museum in our town. I don't THINK there's any part of the council in that part of town, never mind in the museum.
And I think she must have forgotten the last time she talked to someone at the town hall about trees.
She told me he wasn't interested.
I don't blame him!
(In fact I marvel at his tolerance! )
But you can't stop her when she's like this. If you try, she just rings for a taxi and does it anyway.
If you don't try and laugh about it - you cry.
My mum is nutty about her trees.
She used to be a constant and very knowledgeable gardener.
Now at 87 she's forgotten most of what she used to know, now her love of the garden has turned into an unjustified hatred of one of our neighbours.
Every fallen tree, every dropped branch during a storm, is him; climbing over the fence to chop, saw, or otherwise damage our trees.
(He's also in his late eighties, there's no way he can climb fences. Lol!)
The trees that she's going on about now, fell down 5 years ago during a storm. They are too dangerous for my husband to attempt to cut off, or he'd have dealt with them before now.
So...
She says she's going in to town to talk to the council to find out what she can do about our neighbour.
She SAYS she's going to talk to the council in 'Hollytrees'.
Now... 'Hollytrees' is a museum in our town. I don't THINK there's any part of the council in that part of town, never mind in the museum.
And I think she must have forgotten the last time she talked to someone at the town hall about trees.
She told me he wasn't interested.
I don't blame him!
(In fact I marvel at his tolerance! )
But you can't stop her when she's like this. If you try, she just rings for a taxi and does it anyway.
If you don't try and laugh about it - you cry.
