Well big drama round here then. Without warning, the neighbours chopped back the tree in their front garden. And by ‘chopped back’, I mean they reduced it to a trunk with a few ugly stubs for branches.
They’re entitled to do it - of course they are. It’s just tough to see when something beautiful and natural is destroyed forever… right outside your house.
We were discussing it. It’s a bit like a work of fine art. If a Raphael or a Canaletto got shredded in the national gallery, there would be indignation. In some ways, nature is even more beautiful, I think. It was a healthy tree; it even had birds nesting in it. Now (and as Sammy was quick and poetic to point out) there is no birdsong outside our window.
She says she’s going to compose a lament. I wonder whether we shouldn’t plant a tree of our own out there.
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