My Garden sculptures bargain

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The road where I live is planted with ornamental Cherry trees. One of these is right outside the living room window of my Flat with another two on the grass verge further along. The tree in front of my window is quite large and taller than the building and on a dull day keeps the light from the room. There are days when the room is very gloomy and I need to switch on lights but this tree is never dull and is full of life. All kinds of birds visit the tree. Along with a family of grey squirrels, Bluetits, Greenfinch, Blackbirds, Thrush, Jackdaws and Magpies all come to the tree on a daily basis giving me endless entertainment and joy. I love this tree! In the Spring it is awash with large white blooms which brighten up the road.
The other two Cherries bear pink blossom when the white one is just fading. Two years ago, one of the pinks didn’t blossom or leaf and had obviously come to the end of its life. I reported this matter to the council who sent someone to check the tree out and a week later sent someone else to photograph it. The previous year another tree had fallen across the road narrowly missing a passing car and just falling short of a family on their way to school. I felt I was doing my duty by reporting the demise of the tree. Weeks passed and another jobsworth came to carry out an inspection of the tree.
I had first reported it in September 08 and in the following March when nothing had been done, I made an enquiry. Two weeks later, two men came to look at the tree and a week after, came the photographer; surely, something was now going to happen. The weather at the time was very wet and windy with often, strong gales. By September 09 the second pink had died so we now had two trees that needed felling, if only for safety sake.

Well, it’s a very long story and many ‘phone calls later. However, I made one more call last week and was told that there wasn’t the money for the felling of the trees. I mentioned compensation should the trees fall……
Well, what do you know, on Friday of this week, two men with chainsaws and a machine that minces the branches, arrived. In no time at all one tree had been entirely dismembered and was about to have it’s trunk taken down. That was when I saw my opportunity….I needed some interesting sculptures in the garden. I traded cups of tea and biscuits for three lovely lumps of wood which the men carried into the garden for me.

I am absolutely thrilled with them. I don’t quite know where they are eventually going to be placed, but here they are….free sculptures!….and in a way, I still have my lovely Cherry trees.

• 8 Aug, 2010
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