Uncaged

It's my tree now, and that's how it's gonna be from now on.

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Scaffolding came down this morning, though I managed to get up to do some high-level pruning first.  

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On a bit of a whim, we entered the Dell House into the "Worcestershire Awards for Excellence" and were rather pleasantly surprised to find ourselves shortlisted for both B&B and Self Catering awards. The B&B assessors visited this afternoon.  It's safe to assume that they were given a tour of the garden... 

We won't know anything more until mid October now.