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Nov. 3rd, 2008 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shark_hatThe dratted tree that's brushing my house is finally getting cut down- men with chainsaws have been in it all day- which is nice, but less nice is that someone has really taken exception to the operation. (Not the people who live opposite, who have been fine about the whole thing.) Since there's no preservation order and the guy who owns it gave permission, there isn't anything they can actually do, but that doesn't mean they have to be pleasant...
(It is/was a nice-looking tree and I can certainly see being unhappy about it getting cut down- there's now an avenue of them on that road with a honking great gap in it, which is a shame. A big tree is a neighbourhood amenity, so I do feel a bit guilty. I'm going to plant something else, but obviously it'll take tens of years for it to look as good! But, you know, brushing my house. Also, cracks developing at the base of branches weighing several tons each. [*] [Also, it's a sycamore, which are pretty bloody pointless.])
Ballets Trockadero- amusing. I was right in the very back row of the balcony and still had a decent view, which was good.
Oh, yes, people who get both lolcats and the cthulu mythos might like this.
And finally finally- asdfgh: Top Gear last night: instant classic. Is there nothing Jeremy can't set fire to? (The producers weren't so much enabling it as blatantly hoping for it, but the anticipation just made it funnier, I think.)
[*] this is the bit that convinced me to have it felled rather than trimmed.
(It is/was a nice-looking tree and I can certainly see being unhappy about it getting cut down- there's now an avenue of them on that road with a honking great gap in it, which is a shame. A big tree is a neighbourhood amenity, so I do feel a bit guilty. I'm going to plant something else, but obviously it'll take tens of years for it to look as good! But, you know, brushing my house. Also, cracks developing at the base of branches weighing several tons each. [*] [Also, it's a sycamore, which are pretty bloody pointless.])
Ballets Trockadero- amusing. I was right in the very back row of the balcony and still had a decent view, which was good.
Oh, yes, people who get both lolcats and the cthulu mythos might like this.
And finally finally- asdfgh: Top Gear last night: instant classic. Is there nothing Jeremy can't set fire to? (The producers weren't so much enabling it as blatantly hoping for it, but the anticipation just made it funnier, I think.)
[*] this is the bit that convinced me to have it felled rather than trimmed.
