Nowt So Blind ……..

It might be the sheer bareness of winter, but for a couple of days now Nigel has said that he'd noticed a very beautiful tree, way out in the distance, as he leaves our estate to go on the school run.

He had visions of said tree standing proud in a large and romantic field in the vale, surrounded by other trees that could only admire "his" beauty, and only hope that one day they too would grow as tall and proud as "he".  What on earth is he like?

As he walked further down the road the tree got nearer and just as lovely, especially when zoomed in on with our new camera.

So, as it appeared to the right of St Peter’s Church steeple, Nigel reasoned that it must be somewhere a little up the road from there ........

.... but probably some way off from his normal beaten track.…

….. and then didn't give it much more thought for a day or so.

Until a couple of days later, as he was walking past said church to get to school, when the majesty of the tree slipped back into his mind, as he simultaneously gazed across the road to Lidl …….

……. and there it flipping was, his magnificent tree, not unfettered and proud in a distant field, but inhibited by the less than salubrious Lidl car park, somewhere he must have walked past a million times without even noticing it!!!

Proof, he told us later that ".... there's nowt so blind as them what can see" (not sure if he's got that exactly right, but still), including himself, who until then, had always prided himself on noticing the interesting, lovely, unusual and untoward on his travels and thus, from now on, he was going to be even more vigilant, especially when it came to things of such a shapely and captivationg nature, bless his little cotton socks.