Curly twigs and twitchy noses

Another nice day today although the time that you can spend outside in the garden without starting to feel too cold is getting shorter.

We have two of these corkscrew hazelnut trees. One of them had started to go wild again (i.e. started to grow straight branches instead of curly ones) but Florian helped me to re-tame it.

Now that the leaves are starting to thin you can see the decorative curlybranches and twigs very well. The tree has even produced a handful of nuts. This afternoon we watched a little brown mouse with big round ears hopping about under the tree collecting the nuts. He ought to make the most of it now- come December Ella (our cat) will have moved in with us which will probably mean time for the mice to move out.