Second round of tree removal
We have sunshine and showers forecast for the Bank Holiday weekend. Since it was doing sunshine this morning I decided it was time to start cutting bits off the two Leylandii trees that I am going to remove this autumn. They are at the left of the existing hedge. The job needs doing now because the other Leylandii need a trim, and it seems pointless to trim the two trees that I am going to remove. I intelligently ate a substantial piece of cake first to make sure I had enough fuel to complete the job.
The two left hand Leylandii will soon be removed
You can’t see all the branches that I removed in this picture, but I stacked them on the tarpaulin and there were a lot of them. I have made a start on shredding them, but this will be a two-hour job at least. Then I will have to dig up the roots. And then call in a tree surgeon to trim the remaining trees, all four of them. And then plant the new trees. I don’t know exactly how many I can fit in the space left, but at two feet apart, it should be about six.
I am pleased to announce that I did get an A star in my GCSE biology, despite not knowing how the plants under the tarpaulin were getting their carbon dioxide. I think there is nothing wrong with the difficulty of GCSEs – it’s just that the grade boundaries are very low. For Paper 2 in GCSE Biology, you only needed to get 69% to get an A star. And I don’t think any of the questions were unfair, so why have such a low boundary for the highest grade possible?