Disaster!

Well, misfortune, anyway.
Yesterday, I was looking at the fruitlets on my 'Flower of Kent'. The branch with most on is an upright one, up near the top of the tree. I bent it down to have a closer look. Bad idea. It snapped, at the base!
Fortunately, it didn't come right away from the tree: it was still connected by a strip of bark. Therefore, I got some tough gaffer-tape, and bound it fairly tightly back into position: not all that easy, because it is one of two branches growing from the same position at the end of an older branch, so I had to bind it to the other one. (Yes, I know I should have pruned out the weaker of the two last winter.) No sign of any wilting of the leaves today, so I may have got away with it, although the shock to its system may yet, I suppose, make it shed its fruitlets. We shall see. According to the weather forecast, tomorrow is going to be very windy, so I'll see how the repair stands up to that. Not a total disaster if it does have to be removed in the end - there are a reasonable number of fruitlets developing elsewhere on the tree, and the removal of the ones on that branch might just mean that the remainder grow a bit bigger.