We had thunderstorms and rain at 6am but the sun's now out.
Ds off today and tomorrow, so just me doing all the jobs that can be done one handed.
Cremola can?t see any pictures, but well done on the trees, that sounds like a massive job!
Roma, no I haven?t found out what the moth is, but I haven?t had much time to look. 
Nitromors used to be the go to paint stripper, and may well still do it if it?s a single paint layer, but it?s a different formula now as the EU?s banned the active chemical a few years ago (why it lost its Guild of Master Craftsmen logo)
If it?s lots of paint layers the new stuff generally just softens the lower layers unless you keep applying it, which does makes it easier to scrape off, but isn?t the lovely instant solution it used to be.
Look on eBay for Starchem paint stripper, still got the original chemicals and does all the jobs the old favourite used to. (Do read the H+S info on it, it?s pokey stuff)
It was me who said sugar. It?s an old tried and tested way of healing wounds and reducing infection, and stimulating missing flesh to replace itself, (a lot cheaper than silver powder which is another old method) and before antibiotics saved a lot of human limbs, and horses.
It works by drawing moisture out of the wound which reduces bacterial infection (that bit?s fact) and I suspect irritating the flesh into doing it?s job.
The trick?s to clean and repack when it turns to syrup. A freshly gouged finger shouldn?t ooze much, but burns, bed sores or previously untreated wounds can need a lot of treating, but it really does work.
(If you know who Django Rhinehardt was you?ll know about his hands, but his severely burned left leg was saved and ?reshaped? using mainly sugar.)
Before it existed, honey and gritty vegetable ghee was used, but granulated sugar works better, possibly because it?s bleached?