You might not believe it but this is the first time I write a blog … It appears that I am not quite up-to-date with the multimedia world – perhaps I should mention that I just got myself a phone with a dial and wind-up clock and got rid of my cordless Tesco phone and radio clock with digital display – so you can see that trendy to me means something quite different to trending (or whatever the twitter thing is called). But anyhow – here I am and it is like with many a thing in TCV – you learn something new every day even if you have been with them for 7 years!! Pete tells me that he is out today with our volunteers rescuing trees which are totally overgrown and suffocated by weeds… I’m very impressed with these trees as despite the fact that they didn’t have a particularly good start in life (after they were planted they first got ripped back out of the ground by a storm, then they got flooded, then they got frozen and now they are battling weeds) most of them are still there! That’s also thanks to all the volunteers of the local community group (you can check them out following this link: http://www.portlethen-moss.org.uk/) and all the TCV volunteers who have planted the trees, then re-planted them after the storm and kept on weeding them again and again (and will keep on weeding them again and again) until they are grown up enough (the trees that is) to fend for themselves… And then we can all look forward to a woodland stroll and a picnic under one of the trees (you can choose between a picnic under oaks, rowans, willows, ashes, elms, alders, Scots pines, spruces, beeches or birches) and say “When these trees were planted I was there and after planting them we spent 3 years weeding them, but look how beautiful they have become!”