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Toby Carvery carves up ancient historic oak

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Yamadori · 17/04/2025 18:41

Well that's it Toby Carvery, you have lost my custom. Permanently. And your toothless apology today has done nothing to make me change my mind. You make me sick.

Destroying one of the most historic, ancient and nationally important protected trees is an utter disgrace, and the fact that the police are saying it's a civil matter is a fucking joke as well.

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ChardonnaysBeastlyCat · 18/04/2025 10:53

JudesBiggestFan · 18/04/2025 10:28

I can’t get too excited about this. I love a nice tree as much as the next person, but there are a lot of people on this little island of ours. And a lot of trees. Sometimes there is a conflict between the safety of people, the successful and safe operation of businesses and the right of trees. I say this as someone who moved into a property last year and has been bedevilled by an enormous oak tree in the garden that backs on to us and the pigeons that crap copiously onto my lawn and patio day and night, to the point we couldn’t even sit in the sun or let the kids play in almost half the garden. We’ve just paid a grand to have the tree massively cut back after agreeing g it with the neighbours. It’s not been taken down, but to be honest, it’s grown out of all proportion to the residential street we live in. The houses are over 100 years old, whoever first planted it will be long gone but it causes issues in three different gardens now. The owners don’t want to take it down because they value the nature it attracts and it is a beautiful tree, but they barely use their garden at all as a result in the summer. I don’t think it’s always straightforward.

Why on Earth would you move into a property that is ‘bedevilled’ by an oak tree if you don’t like it?

It’s not like you have not noticed it when you viewed it.

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Yamadori · 20/04/2025 18:16

@JudesBiggestFan To put this ancient tree into context for you... when it was a sapling, King Henry VIII was working through his wives, Shakespeare was starting to come up with ideas for his plays and the Americas were yet to be discovered by Columbus.

I think a living organism that has survived all those centuries did not deserve to be destroyed at the whim of some car park maintenance contractors.

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SummerDaysOnTheWay · 20/04/2025 18:48

Yamadori · 20/04/2025 18:16

@JudesBiggestFan To put this ancient tree into context for you... when it was a sapling, King Henry VIII was working through his wives, Shakespeare was starting to come up with ideas for his plays and the Americas were yet to be discovered by Columbus.

I think a living organism that has survived all those centuries did not deserve to be destroyed at the whim of some car park maintenance contractors.

Very well put.

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Yamadori · 20/04/2025 19:10

Thank you @SummerDaysOnTheWay - this is the first time I've been back to this thread since I wrote it in absolute rage, and to be honest, I daren't go back to the start and rtft. Because I know that there will be people who just don't get it.

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SummerDaysOnTheWay · 20/04/2025 20:23

Yamadori · 20/04/2025 19:10

Thank you @SummerDaysOnTheWay - this is the first time I've been back to this thread since I wrote it in absolute rage, and to be honest, I daren't go back to the start and rtft. Because I know that there will be people who just don't get it.

Fully raging with you @Yamadori - it’s criminal 😤🤬😡💪🏽

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