A Gardener's Diary: When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

How did I end up with a seventeen-foot tree trunk in my back yard, last night, after dinner?

As Sherlock Holmes told Dr Watson- in another context-

Matilda Briggs was not the name of a young woman, Watson, ... It was a ship which is associated with the giant rat of Sumatra, a story for which the world is not yet prepared.