Timber!!!

I took Bella May out on the towpath for a wee. It was already dark so I had the torch. She wouldn't come with me and I kept walking to the end of our gravel path and calling her -but no, she sat down and refused to come. I was about to turn back when I heard an almighty crash at the farm swing bridge. 
I thought someone had maybe crashed their car and gone into the canal. As I got nearer and shone the torch I saw this big tree right across the bridge from one side to the other. It wasn't even that windy. 
I couldn't climb over it to tell the farmer so I ran back to the boat and Frank phoned Jennette the farmer's wife. 
It doesn't bear thinking about if there had been a car or person on the bridge; Jennette's daughter had just driven over it to go home.
If a boat had been going through it would have sunk.
Luckily nobody was hurt and Keith the farmer soon got going with the chain saw. It took him hours to reduce it to haulable pieces.

Bella had to go out later for a wee.