This wouldn't happen in London!

Iain is visiting us for a bit of skiing.
We set of this morning nice and early to take advantage of the fresh snow that fell overnight.
But we came upon a minor hitch going down the drive.

It rained a lot overnight and I guess it was windy too.
Luckly, although it had landed on the phone line and knocked it down, it had not snapped it. Phew the internet was safe!
We went back to the house and changed out of ski gear in to tree removing gear, and collected the chainsaw, log turner and a chain before returning to contemplate the matter.

 Doug cut as much as possible off

with some help from Iain

then I pulled the remains out of the ground to make cutting it easier. It was the first time we used the low range 4 wheel drive on the car which was exciting (although perhaps not strickly necessary). It was also the first time we used the tow bar. Exciting!

Once it was on the ground it was easier to chop up smaller.
Finally we dragged the remaining stump, that we couldn't really cut up (mud is bad for the chainsaw and it was a bit big for the chainsaw anyway), down the drive and disposed of it in to the woods beside the road.
By now we had missed the first lift (!) so we retired to have lunch before actually managing to go skiing.

We still need to do something about getting the internet (aka the phone line) reattached to it's pole, we are not quite sure who to call about this. We should also consider cutting down some other trees on the drive before they go the same way.