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Blue Peter badges. Get down Shep. Valerie Singleton's knickers. Oops 😆

The same; rotating the JB chute makes no difference at all

I've used Navara Kingcabs for 18 years. You can add a trailer to carry more and/or make up some greedy boards. Do you have a tripod ladder? If so you can use it to hold down several dumpy bags of arisings; stand on the ladder to press the dumpy bags down and to get the front feet down into the back of the buck against the tailgate and strap the thin end to the ladder rack behind the cab (you need one of those to put mesh onto to protect the rear screen). All sounds a bit niche but it's how I've done small tree and hedge work for all that time (with the trailer bit).

It's a soulangeana or similar which should stop at about 6-7m tall. As said cutting it back will result in ugly 'lollipop' growth but you can minimise that by cutting back to a strong sideshoot, i.e. small branch. Now is a good time to do it unless the tree is drought stressed due to the weather of the last few months in which case either water it a lot or wait until there's been good sustained rain. For the future regular light pruning is the way to go; that will generate much less ugly reaction. Keep it small, don't make it small.

I agree! Even better if new build garages could accommodate something bigger than a Smartcar!

All of them according to the construction lobby!

Even down here in the south east developers are building and then unable to sell. So where's this 'massive demand for housing'? Oh - it couldn't be anything to do with the construction industry having waaaaay too much sway over government could it? £££££££.........

...whilst being abstemious in his habits!

They do look very dark but Peacock?

But it's not a crime to sit down over a cup of tea and offer friendly advice 😋 Unless there's arsenic in the tea

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In the event that anyone actually likes the fitted ear muffs I have a brand new pair of blue and yellow ones taken from an out-of-the-box new helmet. PM if interested and I'll send them to you Jon

They look like Thuja. At this stage I'd say leave everything alone, see what starts to sprout and take things from there. Thuja is more resistant to pruning than the cypresses but still has its limits; new growth will give you a guide as to what's going to be possible

Highly likely Mick but that doesn't mean short-term or that Charlie hasn't got many years ahead of him with a decent quality of life