2024 - What I did today

For the last few days we've been watching the new neighbours massacre their garden. It's a bit like the Amazon rainforest burning relocated to Salisbury. The neighbours themselves are nice friendly people, their ideas though are a bit strange. They want their narrow 100m long garden to be just grass so have ripped out every tree, bush, hedge and flower bed. 30ft fir trees, (which I was very pleased to see the back of) mature yew, silver birch, apple, laburnum, forsythia, spindle, hawthorn, beech and goodness knows what from the natural hedge bordering one side. Definitely a scorched earth policy. They think because a tree is dormant it's dead. They also think that by cutting a bush/shrub down to the ground or thereabouts will stop it growing back, I think next spring will be a bit of an eye opener. Also they're considering grassing the area themselves. Not sure grass will grow over stumps. The upside is my gh gets light in the afternoon now, so not totally bad. We're watching developments with interest, it keeps us amused while the rain continues to fall.