I wouldn't argue at all if it was a safety issue, or a safety-related issue of obstruction. But it does annoy me when people want an existing mature tree removed just because it's "inconvenient".
Though it may be possible to get the council to "trim" it a bit, they have butchered quite a few mature trees round here :(
I planted an Oak tree, (every man should plant one, very satisfying), but 15 years later it had got very large, and antisocial. So I beheaded it, to a single trunk, about 10ft tall. It has grown back into a nice shape.
Oak is one of those trees that is able to spring new buds from old bark, provided it is pruned in the dormant season. Not much time left do do that this season. though.
It's funny, but my children are also scared of wasps and other flying and crawling things, and they have certainly never been taught that insects are bad or dangerous. Us parents don't run screaming when we see one. I can only think it is an inbuilt danger reaction to the unknown or something. No doubt the psychologists can explain it.
Wasps are stripy yellow (=danger), buzzy and string like little b*ggers if annoyed, unlike bees which have to be pushed quite hard to sting and it hurts a lot if you're little. Scared the knees off me when I was little (though, not as much as hornets, now *they* are total b*st*rds).
Oh dear oh dear. Can't have little johhny feeling that anything in the world might hurt him can we?
So he feels safe enough to run across a wasp free motorway at the age of seven?
A side play area no less? Blimey, in my day we had gardens, complete with trees to fall out of, flowers to make you sneeze, nettles wasps and bees to sting you, bits of stone to cut your knees on and a ditch to drown guiniea pigs in.
Not to mention the friends gravel drive to end up embedded in your elbows as you tried to do racing turns on your pushbike.
Do you know, you are too stupid to even live in suburbia, let alone the country.. Go back to living in a high rise flat.
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