Quite A Surprise For Nigel

The pavement at the far end of our road was closed this morning when Nigel nipped into town, but he'll admit, at the time, to not giving much thought to said closure .......

..... however, on his return, he was greeted by a stark and very different vista.

Where before afforded much abundant branch and twiggage ........

...... was now bereft of anything of a vaguely spreading type nature ..........

 ....... only a line of thin, decimated trunks with a little, scattered bark around the bottom was evidence of their very recent plethora of profuseness!  It was, Nigel exclaimed, when he got in, an awful lot of bareness to take in.

 

In his absence, he said, the trees had received a very robust and unabashed pollarding! No place for any sort of springtime nest building, no haven of shade and respite from the hot sun on the summer school run. Watching nature come full circle might take a few years, but you know Nigel will be taking a very keen interest in any hopeful and eventual buddage ...... of any kind!  So watch this space!