How about this for bizarre?

As you know, I spend some of the winter cutting down trees for firewood and the first that I cut was the old tree just in front of the house that looked like it had died (and a good move it was to do that too as it immediately revitalised itself and went berserk).

The wood I cur down I chopped into lengths and stacked at the side of the barn.

One of the the lengths sprouted a branch or two so I reckoned that there must have been tons of sap still . in it. But not at all. In fact when I tried to move it during my tidy-up session I saw that it had pushed roots and grown back into the soil. Now THAT's unusual.

But I've not done much in the way of tidying up for the simple reason that the weather has been against me. I did a machine load of washing yesterday and it was such a beautiful evening last night that I left it out to dry. So of course we've had nothing but torrential downpours all day and everything is thoroughly soaking. I spent the morning computing and after lunch did some of the moving around but dodging the showers was difficult and in the end I made a coffee and came up here to watch a film.

But there's been so much rain that my hardstanding is like a squelchy sponge again. I was hoping that it would stay dry to give me a chance to tamp it down. And ironically the puddle that was soaking wet and into which I spent a day embedding rocks into it, that's currently the driest and most stable part of it now. That's weird too.