Seth Lakeman’s song is today’s title although I really wanted a song about a Flowering Cherry tree but Seth will do! Our beautiful Flowering Cherry that I have mentioned recently had to finally come down today, it was sadly beginning to rot and we have had two new misses this year with things falling off. Steve who comes and does those sort of jobs for us came with his chain saw and I was shredder and tidy up man! It was sweltering in the sun so I have drunk plenty of iced water!  The pictures in the blog are of better days when in full blossom. Now we are left with an empty space and lots of logs and bags of shreddings!

Yesterday was our monthly bird survey out by the river -it was delayed a week because last week the rain was torrential! We didn’t see anything out of the ordinary but last month’s was exceptional. A Spotted Crake has been near where we survey (only 28 males in the UK) but no sight or sound of it!

Still have some work to do on me developing my technology skills before I record stories for Gloucestershire libraries!

I am in contact with Jane Fryer the illustrator about doing pictures for my new story-watch this space!