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from Roy Bailey contains these words:

Is it my imagination or are there more leaves around this autumn?

My garden, with plenty of tress around it, is absolutely inundated with them
and I am having to make a very big wire netting pen to hold them all.

My theory is that the fine, hot summer has produced more growth on all the
branches and therefore more leaves.

Nah: they're just all falling off at the same time rather than a
staggered drop.

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