Paul in the woods

I don't know about them but Mr Spoon regularly went to the moon when I was a kid.

I've often wondered if they landed on the moon but faked the photos.

Use battery chickens.

What's the issue with the trees? Leaves, shade, fear of trees? I wouldn't say they are small but I've seen much larger urban trees.

As much as I don't like the current lot I'm not sure I want the previous lot in or Reform (if either actually want to run the country these days). Unfortunately I think we need a few years of Labour to remind the voters what they stand for.

Wych elm?

In my experience once it's showing obvious signs of die back it'll be dead in a year or two and fall quickly so not a long term prospect of standing deadwood.

May not be the soil, I've got 1000s of 35ish year old ash with dieback and the roots rot off even when the top has a reasonable canopy of leaves. Luckily I've got a lot or regen hazel, which suits my plan, so I'm just felling out the ash.

I don't know what it is, it has a look of a cross between mechanical damage and ash die back. I get lots of squirrel damage in my woodlands and it doesn't look like that, and the tree rats don't seem to go for them. If it goes above 1.5m or so then It's not deer damage. Are the leaves damaged at all? It might just be a reaction to the very dry and very wet weather? This thread might he worth a read:

If they are common wasps then the new queens will hibernate somewhere and find a new nest site next spring. They're likely to be nesting in an old rodent hole and there will be loads of them to use. There's a chance they'll nest there again but I've only known them nest in somewhere like a loft in multiple seasons.

It's getting late in the season now, they'll die out naturally in a week or two.

The fungi look more like velvet shanks, which grow on rotting or diseased wood. Could be something else but not honey fungus.

Probably a parasol Macrolepiota procera, Parasol Mushroom, identification WWW.FIRST-NATURE.COM

If you do shoot them it's worth baiting up an area with cheap bird food, corn etc, a few days before hand. They often get used to an area to feed and you can settle down and pick them off.

I've had this out with a few insurers with a domestic 4x4. Unless I could prove items were fitted to a car in the factory they classed stuff as a mod. The car was some special edition with a different bumper and a few other visual details. Simple answer is to tell your insurance company, ideally via email, then you're covered. Unless they don't like the mod and refuse coverage of course.