Trees! (Light-hearted)

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Feels like every second thread at the moment is about neighbours chopping down trees.

Starting to wonder if you all live on my road, since my neighbour had one chopped down this week. It was ENOURMOUS and a two day affair of constant noise and my garden being covered in sawdust.

I'm delighted, light now floods my bedroom and garden and I don't have to worry about it falling on top of my house this winter. Woohoo!

Anyone pleased with their neighbours tree choices? :)

Once the birds have finished nesting I’m going to approach my neighbour about trimming some of their trees (and hopefully they’ll let me chop some right down).

Trees are nice and all, but I have no sunshine in half my garden at all. Constant shade.

Fucking trees they are everywhere

I have a lovely ash tree in my front garden, only trouble is i keep banging my head when i cut the grass.

One of the dogs hates it when pigeons land in his tree.

I thought there was some law about not chopping trees in nesting season.

Yes there is. Protection of trees 2018, paragraph 22 of page 3.

I love trees and despise people who cut them down or pollard them half to death! We need more trees, not fewer! I lump tree haters with astroturf freaks - nature haters to be pitied and despised in equal measure

The law doesn't say you can't chop trees down during nesting season. It says you can't intentionally or recklessly disturb a bird's nest. Which means you have to check very carefully throughout the tree you are chopping to make sure there is no nest, and stop work immediately if you notice a nest you previously missed.

In practice, it's easier not to chop trees during nesting season.

If the trees out the back from me ( on public land with a TPO on them) were cut down I think I’d cry. Even though the fence ( which is on my land just in front of the trees) would still block out prying eyes, I like the look of the trees and the birds that come sit in them.

I'm with Mistymonday.

We are cutting down a few ash and beech saplings, I don't feel bad, we are surrounded by trees for miles in every direction. I just want one spot in my garden I can get some sun.

I cried when the council cut down a lovely Rowan tree opposite my house, but it was diseased, so it had to go.

It was known as the drunk-catcher tree, because pissed friends would occasionally lurch down my steep drive and find themselves unable to stop until they hit it. The first time we had a party afterwards, one of my mates ended up on her face in the neghbours' front garden.