Sequoia sequel

For once it was nice to have rounded up everything at work, delegated half of it and finished in good time, rather than slaving away until gone 6 trying to get to the bottom of an endless pile.

I had a pleasant, sunshiney ride through town, stopping in the Meadows to check on a couple of stickers, which I found had disappeared, and then out of town to Mum and Dad's for tea, via the Braid Burn Park where I stopped to check on 'my' tree.

It was planted in 2015 as a pretty tall sapling, and I had no idea it was ten years in situ already.  It has grown well so far: I estimated 8 or 9 metres tall.  It's our very own Dawn Redwood – Metasequoia glyptostroboides – which as a species was thought to be extinct, until some were found in its now-native Central China in 1941. Since then they have been carefully propagated around the world, including an example in Mancunia, well known in certain corners of Blipland, as well as Edinburgh.

In the left-hand photo – ten years ago this month by complete coincidence! – was my designed-explicitly-for-tall-people Rans Sequoia :⁠-⁠) which was my town and trail bike for a while, but Mirabel the Green Bike has quite taken over now.

After tea I had a long video chat with lovely bestie whom I can't wait to see again.