Every Cloud I Suppose..... :-(

[gness]

Positive thinking now, Gness!

The bottom corner of my garden is under the shade of next door's huge...really huge tree.....so I planted it for shade and I love it....no sun reaches it....it's just dark, toady and froggy.....

Chatting to the tree owner today she tells me she's giving it the chop.....the lot..... :-(

So.....the silver lining will be that I am getting the trunk and branches....

May plant the trunk and stick my big birthday brolly on it......☺

[stuey]

Gness, talking about clouds and silver linings, there's another adage: Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll get a mouthful of rain:)

[gness]

I will mull that over, Stuey.......x

[stuey]

Here is the optimistic version:"Whenever skies are gray don't worry or fret;
A smile will bring us sunshine and you'll never get wet.
So let a smile be your umbrella,
On a rainy, rainy day."

[Tilly2]

Gness . I'm sure you can create some kind of shady arboretum out of a trunk and a few branches. Save the frogs and bogs, I say!

Let's have a referendum. Frogs and bogs in, frogs and bogs out!

[gness]

Stuey,......if you think I'm going to stand staring at the sky and smiling....think again.... :-)

Oh Lord, Tilly....isn't the aftermath of the last one not enough for you!....x

[tonyav]

Don't look at it as the loss of a tree, look at it as an opportunity to use some of your craft skills gness.
http://cdn.lifebuzz.com/images/63738/lifebuzz-16e4a9026125b91538e9b85f9981c683-limit_2000.jpg

Anyhoo if you ask her nicely she may let you give it the chop, get that chain saw out of the shed ;-)

[Tilly2]

Actually, yes. Cancel the referendum.

[tonyav]

Not being sizeist or anything like that but you could make an elf leprechaun house out of the stump.

[tonyav]

http://i0.wp.com/theverybesttop10.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Top-10-Amazing-Things-to-do-With-Tree-Stumps-6.jpg?resize=510%2C363

[Tilly2]

Wow. I like that, Yont. Lovely!

[gness]

Ooooo you have given me ideas, Tony.....shall forgive you for the post about size!.....xx

[stuey]

That there's Enid Blyton's house, right?

[tonyav]

Yes, stuey. Noddy lives in it now.

[stuey]

Is that house anywhere close to where the teddy bears' have their picknick?

[stuey]

Teddy bears.

[DTCwordfan]

I didn't know that Noddy Holder lived in the Walsall/Brummie area.

[tonyav]

Born in Caldmore, Walsall and then the family moved onto the Beechdale estate between Walsall and Bloxwich, DT. Somewhere in Cheshire now I believe.

Is that house anywhere close to where the teddy bears' have their picknick?

stuey you'll have to go down to the woods to see if today's the day.

[stuey]

OK, Tony; I'll be crossing the field soon, so I'll just duck into the woods and take a gander.

[tonyav]

Careful of what you might find, stuey out there in the colonies ;-)

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/56/e6/ac/56e6ac6e5461901070aec16405f2f5a3.jpg

[stuey]

Just a minute, hold on: That's my field, and that's my beer, but it aint my bear!