I wonder - do trees feel sorrow?

I spotted this very intimate embrace on the bridlepath.  It wasn't immediately obvious which tree the branch belonged to until I passed them and looked back and got this angle.

As you can see they are very 'close' indeed.

But how would you feel if someone you have been this close to dies in your arms?

And then hangs around for another couple of years?

I have been blessed

View this morning as I set out on my walk.

By sheer good luck I managed to do a two hour circular walk involving a lovely bridleway which ended up being on the non towpath side of the canal.  I decided to keep walking until I hit a bridge and come back via said towpath.

Magic.

"And just where do you think you have been all this time?"  Was written all over her face.

So this is how she does it ...

On this basis I guess she prefers pilings

Why is it ...

My house looks so much nicer after I have moved out?

I had to put carpet on the stairs (and in one of the upstairs bedrooms) because tenants need carpet apparently.

Anyway I loved going up the carpeted stairs it was like walking on air. 

Wish I had had it done when I lived there!  Not forgetting having the hallway / landing etc stripped of the horrid wood chip, skimmed and painted.

I want to move back.

That's a lie

Hoping to spend a couple of days back on the boat now the house is sorted.

How to ...

Lower the tone of your ex neighbourhood

And leave for nearly a week.

Tee Hee

Falling in

As you may be aware the cat fell in on Wednesday

She did the same the following morning.

Later that same day I was sat working away and as it was cold the fire was on and the portholes closed.  Cat was in and out through the back doors.

She went out through the back doors and then tried to come back in by launching herself at the porthole.  First I knew of it a furry face appeared briefly in the porthole next to me and then disappeared downwards followed by a splash and a quick exit.

I dried her off with a tea towel on the towpath.  Her head was only dry bit about her.

She has so far not fallen in again.

If she was going for exponential she would have had to fall in 4 times the next day.

An evening in the life of a Ship's Cat

Bit of room for me here

bit more

look cute

just a bit more

There done it.

Okay now it is bed time.