It's a bit like going to the shops to get a litre of milk, and finding all they have is 3 litre bottles - good, but maybe a bit more than I wanted... ha ha.
Rain... then heavy rain... then a brief break before the hail, and more rain... ha ha.
I'm not complaining, we need the rain... Perhaps in slightly less volume, and spread over a longer time, ha ha.
I heard what sounded like a branch breaking in the small hours, so I put it on my "It's too dark to deal with now, so I'll look into it in the morning" list...
That brief break in the rain seemed like a perfect opportunity for a wander round the garden...
It turned out to be a smallish branch from the gum tree, nothing to be concerned about, I could probably even strip it back and make it into a perch for the birds... the branch, not the tree, it's doing fine, as perches go, ha ha.
Then I took a look across the driveway...
There's a wattle tree that starts as a stump, and splits into two trunks...
Splits is the word I'm looking for... ha ha.
Over time, water and borers have got in and weakened it, and all it took was a decent fall of rain and over it went...
Now, I've got half a tree lying across the driveway...
I can see I'll have to make use of a toothy saw and possibly a copious amount of swearing, ha ha.
They say when it rains, it pours... well, maybe not, sometimes it's just light drizzle, but I get where they're coming from... ha ha.
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