Leaves and toads

Today I got to it and started to clear up some of the leaves from the lawns and drive.  I had been trying to hold off from doing this until the cherry tree had shed all its leaves, because last year I carefully cleared all of them without noticing that the tree still had half left on it.  Come the wind the following week and I ended up doing it all over again.  I could not leave it any longer this year though because it was going to damage the lawn – so there are still some on the tree.

I did not clear the lawn very thoroughly though, so it did not take too long.  There were masses though, and even more on the drive which I have not got to yet.

Those are 300 litre bags and there are four of them.  I have only filled them half full because neither R nor J will help me take them to the tip and on my own I can’t lift a full bag over the rail.  Anyway, even with her back seats down Gertie will not take much more than this.  So on Thursday I am taking this lot to the Cupar tip (sorry recycling centre) for a booked in slot, refilling the bags and then going to St Andrews with another batch.  All go.

Anyway in the process of doing this, I rescued two toads which were hiding in the piles of leaves.  One had actually got into the bag without me noticing, and as I had originally put the bags in the garage, it had escaped into a corner where it would have been in trouble if I had not seen it.  So I took the bags and put them outside to give any creatures the time to make a getaway.