No one is talking about the tree that fell in the road just before the bend, after the Weighbridge Inn! I should know because I skidded into it in slow motion, just like you see on the films. I had switched off full beam and slowed down because I could see a police car and someone carrying a torch just around the bend. Of course, with less light I failed to spot the tree in the pitch dark so slowly and quite sedately, I slid across the loose pine branches into the tangled mix of tree branches and leaves.
I sat with the car motionless wondering what to do next. Clearly, there was no route forward. With a bend directly behind me I quickly worked out that I needed to back out and turn around pretty pronto! A 5-point turn later, I was high tailing up the road, back home and started my journey all over again but with a different route!
This evening, all the news is about the 'other tree', the one I didn't see or bump into, which fell on the other side of Nailsworth. So if you read this and can plant a tree, make it a double planting for me :)
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