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Things to be thankful for in a heatwave: living in a Victorian house with high ceilings, rooms that do not face south, and breezes blowing in from the sea 200 metres away.
Able to work in an east-facing room where birds flutter between the sycamore at the end of the garden and the rafters just outside my window, singing while they rest.
Neighbours that don’t give us a hard time for trying to turn most of our garden into a haven for wildlife instead of another expanse of concrete
…When we moved here in 2001, the sycamore was about half the size it now is. It would be quite a bit bigger but over our 25 years here we’ve twice had surgery done on it because its branches start massively overhanging other properties.
One of our neighbours uses this against us whenever I’ve challenged him on why he sits in his diesel van most days, running his engine for 40 minutes, going nowhere.
He tells me it’s clean diesel and emits less CO2 than us commissioning surgery on our tree
@urlyman
We have one, big in 1984 when we arrived, huge now.
Cursed it at first for all the seedlings.
Later tapped the sap and made wine (not unpleasant). Also a few spoons from the wood.
Now we value it greatly for the summer shade.
Also had surgery on it several times. Top tip, don't use the door knocking blokes with a chainsaw. Find a qualified tree surgeon.
@markhburton We always do use a qualified tree surgeon who follows all the correct procedures with the council 👍
…In the short term he may be right, but I think he may be missing the point that the tree regenerates and stores carbon, whereas his van is needlessly burning ancient sunlight at about 1/500,000th of the cost its diesel ought to be.
I wouldn’t mess with him though
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