A windy few days

It seems as if the tiny glimmer of summer sun has definitely gone and been replaced with wind and rain.

This coincided with our trip to Batsford Arboretum to have a look at their visitor and garden centre, which recently opened. Sadly the arboretum was shut due to the high winds which had caused damage to their trees.

Westonbirt has remained open through the windy conditions, however yesterday on my drive into work I spotted the tree team hovering around the new ha-ha. We have had a group of professional dry stone wallers in to try and finish off more of the wall which I checked on but then noticed the strained wire was not quite as tight as normal. The little shed which had been put up next to the gates had a Wizard of Oz moment; the roof blew off straight into the wire causing one of the posts to bend!

Luckily we have managed to fix it easily and hopefully the majority if not all of the wall will be finished by the end of the day. However I shall be making sure the shed roof is screwed and bolted on tightly when it goes back up!