For a woman who spent her working life in the gloomy, daylight starved, environments of Medical Imaging Departments, it is quite the turn of events to turn my transferable skills to the management of a Tennis Club by the sea.

Yesterday we were entertaining Tree Surgeons doing remedial work on  trees damaged by winter storms. The first of two such days in June.

All of our trees have Tree Protection Orders on them so licences and permissions have taken some time to be obtained.  But two young men with some very fancy equipment  soon trimmed our ailing Ash tree into something that may or may not survive a disease process. But at least now he no longer has any big boughs to drop over our neighbours wall.

But he is not a thing of beauty anymore.

Taking a jump from one world to another in semi-retirement is a fascinating process. Every day is a school day. Transferable skills flex and expand. My treasure trove of knowledge has some truly eccentric and unexpected nuggets of new information and I have some different or enhanced skills. I also have a much bigger and prettier office!