When Jane was out and about this morning, she spotted some workers taking down a tree on a nearby housing estate. It turned out they were very happy for us to go back and pick up some of the resulting wood this afternoon. Three car loads later and we haven’t got it all but we’ve probably got about all our storage system can cope with until it has been processed a bit! We’ve tipped off another local friend with a woodburner who should be able to tidy away the rest tomorrow.

Meanwhile, we’re left with a mixture of branch pieces and trunk sections. In theory, I suppose we could probably reassemble it into a tree shaped object! Of course, without the roots, it would never be a real tree so I think I’ll go in the other direction and disassemble it into smaller pieces which will store more neatly and dry out more quickly.