The Shadow Tree

Many thanks for all your very supportive wishes for a good choice and a process settled.

The Boss threatens to start a-blipping so that she can recount her side of the narrative unfolding.

The shadow tree - the doubts that creep from spring's release, and all that. Buyer's remorse. Blah di blah.

A trip to Pontassieve to a packed and huge Co-op supermarket brought everything down to earth.

And then the ride along the lanes, a viper struggling in the road after a bob-tailed cat had attacked it, the hare back in her place, blossom giving way to leaf and cuckoos from the Casentino echoing in our ears.

You build your house where the cuckoo calls says an old Kiwi friend. Or where geological pericolosity is at least lessened.