I've been thinking...

if no one was present when the tree branch fell, did it make a noise? There is evidence that it did. The impaled dog weeing on the park railings certainly heard a noise. Looking up from it's cocked business the dog paused, midstream so to speak, and was duly skewered. Old Captain Cat, cosy beneath a sea farers rug watched through his harbour master telescope and later told me everything.

Harry High Hat the top alley cat who lives outback of my house said not one animal, wild or domesticated shed a tear for the dog. The charitable blamed a weak bladder, the rest blamed mendaciousness for that dog had history, that dog would wee on anything, as well as on more than one summer occasion a basking Harry. For many, therefore, justice was done yesterday afternoon. A post 'stuck-dog' party held in Crowcroft Park last night for assorted local wildlife was a raging success, or so said Big Trev who seems to know more than he's letting on.

This morning I examined the fallen branch and found strange markings that might have been made over a period of some time with a saw. And Big Trev was seen in the park's tree tops yesterday, chasing squirrels he claimed. One squirrel thought he saw Trev with a saw but couldn't swear to it as at that time he was also busy removing dog piss from his coat.