On Tue, 24 Dec 2013 17:21:21 +0000, Spider wrote:

On 24/12/2013 12:30, Emery Davis wrote:
to the big job of cutting it up, or paying someone to do it.

The main damage came to our neighbour's place, which took a large birch
on the house over the front door. It uprooted quite early in the

It's sad to hear about your Elm, but good to know there wasn't more
significant damage. We seem to have survived unscathed, but I haven't
been out in the garden today, so hope all is well outside.


Thanks. I must say the elm was going to go sooner or later, but I had
hoped for later. Unlucky is all.

We had a Christmas walk through the forest, there were many trees down,
mostly large pines that uprooted.

I do feel for your neighbour. Hope he can get the house patched up
without too much trouble.

He's already done it. But it's a hard holiday for the old feller, the
roof is the least of it. His (very much younger) wife left him last
month, so he's on his own, poor health and all. Indefensible in our
view, in spite of the age difference. Ah well, modern times.



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Gardening in Lower Normandy