charles barrow's writing

The Hardy Tree can be found in the Old St. Pancras Churchyard in London. It is an Ash tree (Fraxinus Excelsior). It is named for the author Thomas Hardy. Before he gained fame as a novelist he worked as a trainee architect and the task fell to him, in 1865, to relocate the tombs and bodies in this churchyard because the expanding railways needed the land. He re-arranged the headstones around the ash tree as you see them in this photo. Old St. Pancras Churchyard also features in the Charles Dickens novel Tale of Two Cities, written in 1859. Photo is the author's own.

I recently watched singer Adele being interviewed by Graham Norton. She sang some old hits and some tracks from her new album 25. I was struck, watching her sing, how very old fashioned she seemed as a performer. I mean old fashioned in a good way. She's like a chanteuse from another era, like an Edith Piaf. Bette Midler is a more contemporary equivalent. Like them, Adele's song is the story of her life and she lives it in the telling. Some of her freshly minted new songs sound like classics already.

I'm at a loss really to know what to say about this piece of woodcraft. I came across it during a walk through the local forest, a forest famed for its red squirrels. It's obviously meant to be a squirrel but it looks like an alien. I would usually tag a photo with the term 'Writing inspiration' but not this one. This is just weird and I wanted to share the weirdness.  Photo is the author's own