h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Well, it's been about a month now since I moved into my "new" house.
All of the weekends I've spent out in the back garden trying to tidy it up. Next weekend I'm working (a blessing in disguise I think) so I'll not get a chance to do any more out there for a fortnight now.

The main reason for spending so much time and effort out there was to fell a tree at the bottom of the garden which was well past it's use by date and was posing a threat to the tree next to it.
The tree itself was a bit of a monster having seven large trunks sprouting from near the ground (which one was the main trunk was hard to tell)and going about twenty feet at it's highest. After a lot of effort and plenty of tea breaks I managed (with a lot of help from my brother) to get it down.

Apart from that I managed to clear most of the growth (mostly Ivy) from the bottom of the garden which was growing through at least four different chain link fences that had been erected over the years. that was not an easy job to get them out.

Apart from the obvious danger of getting tangled in the fencing and falling over a few times (had a nice soft landing on each occasion luckily) there is a huge apple tree in the property to the rear of mine and every now and then we heard a thud as an apple fell. The only problem being that a lot of them hang over my garden and I was expecting one to smack me on the head at any minute, luckily for the apple it never happened.

It still needs some work to be done down there, the ground needs levelling and a new fence needs to be erected but the hard part is now over (I hope, s to the gods of mischance).

Now apart from feeling absolutely cream crackered, I feel a huge sense of achievement and satisfaction and on top of that I have plenty of wood for the fire over winter.

Now I think I'll go and have a good long soothing soak in the bath for a week or two

Congratulations on your great achievement

My shoulders are still hurting from all the work I did

Awe At least it's done

But did you get the stump out? That's even harder than cutting down the tree! No baths til it's all done!!!!

Well, that part of it's done!!



I've still got the ground levelling to do and the drive to sort out and the apple tree to prune and a couple of plum trees to plant....

I could go on but I'll scare myself out of doing it


How are you FF?

I did better than getting the stump out Deaks I dug around it and lit a fire over it. It's not all gone but it won't grow anymore and what's left is well bellow ground level

I'm alright

I've just got a bit of a headache

You should stop all of that head banging then

That reminds me... good news! My chin is no longer red and swollen and only hurts a but if I touch it

bit... not but...

I'd like to know how you touch your chin with your but

Very carefully...

I won't ask you where you put your legs then

You have to cut them off.

Detachable legs, now that could be handy

It could also be a problem... what if you lose one?

You could always order some nice long shapely ones from your convenient online supplier and then throw the other one away Or use it as a prop

This whole thing is starting to sound like a big hassle to me

No


Think about it

You could have your extra long legs for reaching those out of reach things,

your extra short diddy legs for getting into places half price

and your very special Sunday best legs for showing off



Can't see anything wrong in that