My parents are victims of cowboy tree surgeons who are now blaming my mother.

[Con]

7 minutes ago, peds said:

Mine's all right, the eucalyptus on the ground next to it isn't feeling very well though.

 

 

I moved the trees a bit closer for better birdwatching. 

Yeah, there's around 7 trees in a line to come down there, including the big one, which looks like an old giant that was coppiced once upon a time. Shame, but it'll improve the view. Two poplar that I'm not keen on as well, they've got a future in a hugelkulture bed.

Not that one, the other one, or maybe I just imagined it

[peds]

I have a little patio cherry in a big pot that the cats were using as a scratching post, but she's fine now too. 

I suspect you're thinking of someone else's cherry tree though.

 

Another 9 ash to knock over on this side too, hope their still worth the time and effort as firewood at this stage...

[coppice cutter]

The most ridiculous thing in the whole debate is that farmers would benefit the most from decreased production and extensivication, but they're the most against it.

 

While the average consumer would suffer the most (think present energy situation, but applied to food) yet they're the ones largely shouting for it.

 

"Careful what you wish for" was never more apt!

 

 

[Mesterh]

46 minutes ago, Con said:

What about the cherry tree?😆

The OP is probably watching the Clarkson series now and looking at buying a tractor.

 

[coppice cutter]

49 minutes ago, Con said:

What about the cherry tree?😆

F**k the cherry tree.

 

We did our best!

[Stere]

What is that tarmac yard going to be looks like a carpark?

 

 

[GarethM]

Don't you know thats how all roundabouts start life before they round off the corners!

[openspaceman]

2 hours ago, Sutton said:

Higher costs (fuel fertiliser, animal feed, commercial electric rates etc) with dwindling traditional subsidies, means, if market prices remain comparatively low, that farmers will simply stop growing food.

This is my worry, farmers depend on confidence there will be a sale for their produce, as do we all really, that confidence is not there and hedging on futures doesn't produce the confidence farmers need to plant  now.

 

Very little of the world's grain is traded as exports  so it only require the loss of a little global production to have an effect

[peds]

8 minutes ago, Stere said:

What is that tarmac yard going to be looks like a carpark?

My yard? That's quarry dust not tarmac, blindings before a raft goes on.

 

The car park is over there, with a big pile of 804 in the middle of it that the digger forgot to move. Oh well. 

 

[Con]

29 minutes ago, coppice cutter said:

F**k the cherry tree.

 

We did our best!

Ah. I didn't just imagine it then. There was a cherry tree involved somewhere!