Sunday Selections #672

 Long ago, Kim of Frog ponds Rock, (who no longer blogs), dreamed up a meme called Sunday Selections. 

A place where those who were willing could put up photos they wanted to share, new, old, good, bad or indifferent, any photos you please. 

Nothing rude or vulgar though.

And we don't mind at all if other bloggers care to join us.

The meme is now continued by Elephant's Child and I join in as do a few others. Andrew is one.  Messymimi is another. Drop in to their blogs and have a look.

Wisewebwoman has also been joining us.

some fast moving clouds while waiting for a bus recently

and further east the sun peeking through a tree

Lola doing what she does best

This is a council truck cutting down a tree branch that was hanging on the electrical wires - at 11.40pm!

the old white willow out the front had begun splitting some time ago

and split much further during the last wind storms we had

we woke up Tuesday morning to find the lower section hanging less than a metre from the ground

while the top of the branch was hung up on the wires, you can see how the one wire is being pulled downward, so Housing was called and gave their standard answer "we'll send someone out in 7-10 days"

Not good enough decided C and me, C phoned the local council who said they'd send someone first thing in the morning. Well, as you saw in an earlier picture, they didn't wait until morning, arriving and making quite a bit of noise very late that same night.

this is what we saw the next morning, branch on the ground and the electric wires all still safely attached to the pole.

waiting for the chainsaw and wood chipper to arrive.

this is where the branch broke away from the tree

Mr Gnome now has a new bright blue coat

and darker blue pants

Mrs Gnome will have a pink dress but I'm not happy with the shade

I want it darker like the scissor handle, so I will have to mix some of the pink with a drop of red.

here is one of the twins wearing Mummy's shoes

Videos:

they love the baby trampoline, turn your sound up and hear them "talking" to each other

and the next VERY short video

is from their Disco Night.