When we saw how much work the house needed we decided that we would work on the inside over the winter and the bad weather and then move onto the garden in Spring and the nicer/milder weather.

That changed however, when we realised one of the trees swayed dangerously close to the house in the wind. Hoping to avoid a very expensive and disruptive accident involving the tree and our roof, Hubby hired a friend who is a tree surgeon to take it down.

I have to admit, while I knew it was a BIG tree, I was in no way prepared for the amount of branches that would cover my garden on it’s way down!!

I was totally unprepared. A bit naïve possibly?

It took over two days for both myself and Hubby to organise them into piles according to their size. But then came the problem of what to do with them? We have an open fire, which is great but apart from the shed that was left we really had nowhere to store and dry the wood.

The shed had wood in from previous years thankfully, so we have been using those for now. This tree will provide some of the fuel for the fire for next year we hope.

We just need somewhere to store and dry it all.