This week, the left over parts of the apple tree in my garden are to be cleared - all the branches have been cut off, only the bough remains. Basically, at the end of June, my region (i.e. South Yorkshire) had the worst floods in recorded history - this caused the water table to be so high and for a long period of time, causing the ground to subside and the tree to tumble sideways. My area of town is at the top of a valley, and is pretty high up (more than 200ft above sea level), so we were otherwise unaffected.
It's quite weird cutting down a childhood tree, and a little sad . That red thing under the tree is the handle of a swing which was never taken down, because the tree branch growing made the rope difficult to remove (also, it was left for 'sentimental reasons' ). You can also see a washing line that will have to be tied somewhere else now. When I was about 6 or 7, I remember my teacher telling me she used to live next door (probably on the left side of the photo) when she was little, and she used to peer over the fence and see the tree - she was prolly in her fifties when she told me, so her family might have been the first to live at that house (they were all completed in 1939). Stories like that are pretty special, I suppose - still, back to work on destroying the tree! .
We lost our eucalyptus tree too, from the same mass downpours - we had that cut down straight away by experts, because it was something like 60 feet tall or more (quite a lot taller than the house), and was leaining dangerously into the next door neighbour's garden (located to the SW of this picture - though it's actually East ). Eucalyptus are supposed to be the fastest growing trees in the world - this one was only about 15 years old - I think bamboo grows faster, but that's a plant . Koalas eat eucalyptus, but fortunately, you don't get many in South Yorskhire. I want to have a new one grown, as they are nice trees and you can also show off their height, but my Dad says it isn't worth it.
To replace the apple tree, I want one of these trees that has these really dark vibrant red leaves in Autumn - apparently, they are called Japanese cherry blossom trees, but I'm not sure that's the case . My parents, in their infinite wisdom, would like the bottom of the garden to have a greenhouse instead .
Ah, that is sad. My dad once told me about when he was a kid and they planted a little tree. He kept asking when it would be big enough to climb. Someone told him, "By the time that tree is big enough to climb, you won't want to climb it anymore." He said he couldn't imagine anything more sad than not wanting to climb a tree.
I had a crabapple tree in my front yard split in half not long ago. It looked perfectly fine, you couldn't tell that it was rotten in the middle. A huge gust of wind and it came crashing down. It looks really funny now - just one curved branch.
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. That red thing under the tree is the handle of a swing which was never taken down, because the tree branch growing made the rope difficult to remove (also, it was left for 'sentimental reasons' 
). You can also see a washing line that will have to be tied somewhere else now. When I was about 6 or 7, I remember my teacher telling me she used to live next door (probably on the left side of the photo) when she was little, and she used to peer over the fence and see the tree - she was prolly in her fifties when she told me, so her family might have been the first to live at that house (they were all completed in 1939). Stories like that are pretty special, I suppose - still, back to work on destroying the tree! 
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. Koalas eat eucalyptus, but fortunately, you don't get many in South Yorskhire. I want to have a new one grown, as they are nice trees and you can also show off their height, but my Dad says it isn't worth it. 
. My parents, in their infinite wisdom, would like the bottom of the garden to have a greenhouse instead 
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You have an unbelievably bizarre way of seeing things - if that's true, then I guess it means I don't believe you exist.
