Help arrived...

...to take down the last chunks of willow tree. 

My bow saw was defeated by these final two limbs, so my friend N came round with his electric chainsaw and the job was done in five minutes.

The extra shows the finished pollard.

It is already obvious how much additional light will reach the perennial veg beds. Hopefully that means that the asparagus will flourish a little better this year.

I've not been on Blip much in the last 24 hours. My FFL's wife, F, was taken to hospital yesterday in great distress and confusion. She was too unwell to chat on Saturday when I visited, and she went downhill so fast that the ambulance was called on Sunday afternoon. 

I shan't go into details, because it's not my place. But she's in the right place now, is on medication and is being well looked after.

FFL and I were running around this morning doing a few things related to her hospitalisation, and it got awfully complicated at one point when we both wanted to be in three places at once. 

Then we texted each other, canned four things which suddenly became less important, did the one thing each of us had left. And then I came home and he went in to sit with F for the rest of the day. 

It was a lesson in prioritising and not getting flustered. We were both - briefly - guilty of the latter before we got hold of ourselves and rediscovered the former.

I was home in time to greet N and his chainsaw. He also delivered my new Monty's Surprise apple tree, which he had kindly picked up for me over the weekend. 

It is the final apple tree in my collection and I shall carefully plant it tomorrow. It could well be a Blip.