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Oh I could put up with that OK, more that she comes across as a nasty, unpleasant, vindictive racist that gets me. Fortunately she's also as thick as a brick or she could do even more harm.

No, I'm not having that. "Irritating tosser" he may be, but he mostly irritates people who deserve to be irritated. Plus, he done farming more good in one series of shows than the BBC have done for the forty odd years since they replaced their proper farming programme with that countryfile shite.

I'd like to and have tried to many times. But she keeps popping up, like an unwanted sucker from something that you thought was dead and buried.

I heard grey squirrels described a while ago as just "rats with good PR". Seems the public perception of greys goes down a few notches every year.

I initially thought James Kingston, but then seen the guys age. I suppose the good Mr Kingston ain't as young as he used to be anymore either.

Hard to know how they perceived things back then before everyone's taste buds were shot to hell by monosodium glutamate. After a bit of a health scare a few years ago I had to give up sugar in my tea and using any extra salt at the table. How my taste in food changed over the following couple of years was pretty dramatic to the degree that most processed or takeaway food now tastes akin to poison, but I still like a bit of home baking so even my taste buds are still hugely corrupted by modern life. So it's a fair point, something which seems essentially bland in our present time may indeed have been perceived differently back then. Then again, rivers and streams would have been pretty much unpolluted so would they even have bothered, is there any record of it having been done hundreds of years ago I wonder.

Having read the report by the University of Alaska on the potential damage done to the trees, it's another reason why, having done it unknowingly once, I wouldn't tap any trees again for birch sap when there's no need to. https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/handle/11122/3198 They are especially sensitive trees.

Son-in-law has an Isuzu pickup of some variety which has become the default dogsbody vehicle for all of us and it plays up a bit from time to time. But it's usually not too long until there's a trailer load of sheep/cattle/something else behind it which facilitates it being given a good caning, and that's it back on the straight and narrow for a while. But they also kept my daughters wee Civic after they were married and he uses it for a lot of the short runs, checking stock, going to his work, and such like. Apart from the amount of fuel it saves, it also keeps the Isuzu away from a lot of the sort of thing that would be causing DPF issues. Their 'good' car now is an XC60 and so far there's been no such issues with it, and I'm pretty sure it'll probably have a DPF as well. But it's a right lump of a thing and only a two litre so maybe works a bit harder? Not sure. Diesel vehicle for the road is something I'll never have anyway. Anyways, I'd still drop a battery terminal off for an hour just to see what happened.

Deal!

My head was trying to advise, but in my heart, really, I'm rooting for the tree. If you excuse the pun!

If we can include solicitors, barristers, and 'expert witnesses' then I'm in?

You're really not getting this at all are you?

Yeah, that's entirely possible too, they're always finding more ways to limit your options. Sneaky buggers!

Car or bike, it's always worth disconnecting the battery terminals for an hour when there's an electrical problem. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but it's not much hassle to try no matter how small the odds of it working. Maybe google* it first? *- other search engines are available.

You are casually stating with certainty, something which solicitors, barristers, and "expert witnesses" could line their pockets squabbling over for a few years, should the neighbours be vindictive enough and well-heeled enough (or stupid enough!) to decide to pursue. The growth next door hasn't come from setting seed, it has come directly from the roots of the original tree which has spread over the boundary, and I reckon that is sufficient grounds to make the problem contestable. Awkward or not, the neighbours need to be included in dealing with the problem. An, "it's not our problem any more, you deal with it" approach could end up badly, and in my opinion, it's probably worth a bit of teeth gritting to avoid that possibility.

Again, any possibility that it's doing this itself via the ECU because the system hasn't been reset?

Is there any possibility that you've sorted the problem but the warning light just needs reset? If there's any likelihood of that being the case you could try disconnecting the battery for a while and then re-connecting it. Might not work but at least it would be simple compared to flogging around the roads like a testosterone charged young fella.

I said it was "kinda" your tree, which it kinda is. The suckers have come from the roots of your tree which have spread in to their garden. And strictly speaking, your tree isn't dead, the root system from it, which plainly spans both gardens, is putting all it's efforts in to the growth in your neighbours garden. Nature is no respecter of title deeds or ownership boundaries.

Well actually their tree kinda is your tree, but now it's just growing on their side of the fence. And that foliage is now feeding the roots keeping the entire thing alive. You both need to work together to deal with it rather than finger point and try to apportion blame.

Not for a wild cherry, or sour cherry. I have lots of both and they sucker like crazy.

No misunderstanding, that's what it's doing. Not all trees propagate themselves and spread in this way, but Wild Cherry does, and it's very good at it.

Yes, they're called "suckers", Mr Stubbs has already dealt with that.

There's two issues here. Firstly, it seems they done their job OK, they removed the tree but if it's still suckering from the existing roots as appears to be the case, that's something different. I suspect as said before that if you just keep mowing the grass and suckers with it, it will eventually give up. Secondly, they had no need to do something as retarded as blaming your mum for the suckering problem. I can't imagine they are dull enough to actually think that is correct so they were just making excuses when they had no need to.

I planted about 400 of the rascals, but they mustn't have reached the stage of doing that yet as I've never noticed anything.

I done it once and found it pretty underwhelming if I'm honest.