Lately I’ve been picking up conkers littering the pavement near our house - we then scatter them in nearby Richmond Park - apparently they’re an essential part of the diet of deer - so the signs in the park have said, asking people to leave them.
I’m looking forward to the mature beech tree in our garden changing colour. Against a blue sky it’s absolutely glorious.
The tree is really too big for our little garden but it was there when the house was built and is protected, not that we’d ever want to get rid of it. A NDN has badly wanted it felled - he strongly objects to the mess of leaves and beech mast - so we were v glad when the tree officer firmly told him No Way!