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It's a shitty situation all right, but even if he's barely more than a corpse by November, it is imperative that he beats the alternative. He is most definitely the lesser of two weevils. The alternative: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gYwqpx6lp_s&

I'd imagine the game plan at this stage is to get him over the finish line then have him walk around in front of the Texas School Book Depository (or, you know, just wait around for six months...), and let Harris slide into position.

When I first started towing stuff I was incompetent and dangerous. I still am... But I was, too. - Mitch Hedberg

Maybe he picked up 2 left slippers accidentally?

Not sure to be honest, some point in the last 6000 years though. He does move in mysterious ways.

Ready for another controversial opinion... Shoes belong outdoors, and you are a monster for trekking anything into the house. That's why God invented slippers.

Edit: I've just seen the bark in the other pictures you added, that's not a beech. So the below doesn't necessarily apply any more! --- So look, it's had a bigger haircut than beech usually enjoy. The tree will probably panic and send out a heap of spindly growth from just below each of the top pruning points (and from the base, and from anywhere it gets a lick of sunlight...), they'll all vye for pole position to become the new top of the tree, and it'll selectively self-prune the losers out over the next 15 years. The winners will try and grow into a tree the same size as the one it used to be, but they'll be growing from a weak join to the old growth, which will be further weakened as the cuts turn into rot pockets, amazing for wildlife and habitat creation, less good for the structural stability of the tree. It'll need to be trimmed back more often than anyone will be willing to pay for to keep it at a safe size from here on in. If it escapes and grows too big again (sorry, not if, when...), you won't find as many people willing to climb it to put manners on it again, it'll be a big machinery job, it'll be more expensive, and it won't get done. Alternatively, trees can be quite good at just carrying on when they've been damaged, and they often bounce back from worse that nature would normally give them. So let's wait and see! Shame, it was a very pretty tree before, but I'm sure whoever pulled the trigger had their reasons. Might be an idea to plant a few replacements around the area to take over when this one has to go.

Jesus, thank god for that.

Is this a photo from after they'd packed up and gone home, or are works still ongoing?

Pure, fresh grass cuttings in a thick carpet just give an overdose of nitrogen to the roots of a tree as it starts to break down, which can burn them, chemically. If it's heaped up against the trunk in a big pile, the heat of the decomposition can also burn the tree physically, literally cooking the cambium. As it rots, the grass can form an airtight mat around the tree, preventing gas exchange to the roots. If it's just grass trimmings from the grass itself under the tree, and not a dumping ground for the whole lawn, it's grand, the soil will digest it no problem. And grass clippings can be used as a mulch, but carefully, and sparingly. It's great at weed suppression. Doesn't look the prettiest in my opinion, better off composting it (or just leave it on the f*cking lawn, let the grass feed itself...!) and mulching with bark or woodchip instead.

No point wasting it. I rinsed out a whiskey bottle earlier with a tiny splash of water to get a last little taste of it.

Let's try it again, dogs firmly instructed not to be idiots.

Tricky to tell with the angle, but you look awfully close to going over a 33% reduction there...

Yeah, fair point. Got me bang to rights, guv!

No disagreement from me, the God of Abraham is a grade-A shitheel who should be scrubbed from existence. He's nothing but trouble, that one. Now, back to Tate. Any defence of him?

The women in your life need to be worried every second of every day that a pustule like Tate is not only permitted to vent his toxic ideas, but celebrated by a depressingly-vocal section of society.

There isn't an emoji with eyes rolling hard enough to reply to yours. I feel sorry for the women in your life if you have even a single syllable of defence for this alpha scumbag.

Nigel Farage speaks highly of rapist Andrew Tate?! I'm shocked! Shocked, surprised, and astonished!!

I knocked over a row of alder for a guy in September. He just wanted them felling and leaving, he'll do the rest. Make sure you get them ringed, split, and stacked ASAP, alder isn't very patient, I told him. Oh, I will, he said. So I'm back here today, ringing them up.

Oh, I meant a blanket of bacon and a glass of red wine, but your treatment sounds a lot kinder. I'm hoping to add pheasants to the flock one day, to fatten them up properly... instead of chewing on the wiry feral birds.

That's what I'm worried about... I made a janky bodge job trap out of a pallet box, sound theory and it would have worked, but very home-made looking... and foxy took the bait from outside, not inside... probably smelled too much of me. Good job catching the pheasant though, hope it was treated well!

Good news! The fox trap I borrowed off a friend works. I caught a brown dog called Baldric, out for his morning piss. He made sure to eat the chicken leg the trap was baited with before he started yelping for help though.

It's just a shame that it'll probably be that that sends them to prison, if anything, ever, and not the rest of their general shitebaggery.