Did I mention Dad was back? Well, yeah, he is.

Anyway, just now, Dad said he had something "to tell us".

Let me just say I hate it when people tell me that. It always gives me the creeps. 'specially since last time I was told that it was about Treacle.

So I waited for about thirty seconds, practically dying, hoping nothing had happened to the cats.

Thank goodness, nothing had. But it turns out our idiot of a tenant who thinks he's so clever simply because he used to manage houses to let, "took it upon himself" to "trim" the trees in our copse.

Well. I'll show you a photo I took of the copse, a while ago. (Sorry it's a really bad photo, not to mention the mangy brownness of it...)

Ok, see? Bushy, twiggy and overall not very nice. But still. It's our copse and we like it like that.

And here's the small (sorry, had to crop it) photo our house-manager-people sent us of what the idiot had done to it.

Oh yeah. Sure. Bril. Thanks. You know how people who aren't drawing experts draw trees? A trunk and leaves at the top? Well, that's what it's like now. When, before, it was more of a kind of bush-tree.

So he thinks he can "improve" our garden like that, does he? Mum said that was technically a criminal offence. I asked some questions, and apparently a grown tree like that would cost about 400£.

So. 400£ times 7 = 2,800£

Plus the work it would cost to dig holes etc, I make it about 3,000£.

That lunatic owes us 3,000£!!! So I suggested we should sue him. But Mum said we didn't have enough time to do that. (Seriously, if we did, we'd already have sued a couple of other people. As it is, we have one on the waiting list for when we come back from Africa.)

Well! If he hasn't gone to hide in Paraguay for fear of his life by the time I'm 18, I'll sue him. Just you wait.

Apparently, they rescued a hedgehog from the swimming pool a couple of days ago.
But that does not change my opinion of them. Obviously. Any idiot (or non-idiot) would get some drowning thing out of the pool. I mean, you can't just leave it.
's not fair, though. I haven't seen even one hedgehog there...

Still! They shall be sued. Twice.