Council has planted tree on my land.

Oh ok Orca! I don't know what the flippin' tree is!!

IT MIGHT HAVE A LABEL !!!!

Bark! Not vocally I remember learning how to identify trees by their bark.
It could be an apple tree, and as it belongs to the council will frank then not touch the apples?

He said one of his neighbours identified it as a maple.

I love this thread - it gets dafter and dafter! If it was me, I would dig the tree up, plant it where I really want it to be, and phone the council to complain that my maple is missing! You can't plant too many trees.

When we moved in 2011 Absent we went into temporary accommodation for 6 months until we could move into our current home. In my last house I had quite a big garden with some fantastic rhododendron's,fruit trees, magnolias, camellia's etc. we had no choice but to leave everything as we had nowhere for them to go. I went to visit my ex neighbour last Friday and was upset to see the state of my once lovely garden. Everything was either overgrown or gone and my once manicured lawn resembled a kind of jungle. Needless to say the new owners are not gardeners .

Life's too short, life's too short - honest, for all this Angst - it's a small tree, struuf.

gonna get bigger

Did someone recently say that Gransnet was a bit boring lately? You can count on Frank to liven things up! If we're not careful, this thread will be taking over from the legendary bums and tums saga!

*NEVER*!

hummingbird ,shh!, please don't mention bums and tums again,

Where's the White Rabbit?

He's late, he's late , for a very important date!

His furry ears and whiskers took him too much time to shave!

Like Alice! I'm going to fall down the rabbit hole
Or Is it actually the the CERN project?


I think I'll return to Avatar mode! I can't deal with this!
I'm blue, I'm high,
And in the sky
I'll blithely fly
I'm seven foot tall
And,in the halls
Of franks world
I'd die!

Galen

Hmmm just thinking out loud here but Frank said he paid his council tax early and all in one go..... could he have actually paid for the very same tree?

Is Frank real? One day we will find out that he/she is a 20-something winding us all up. Probably doing to write a book about it.

Perhaps it's a Thankyou present from the council for baling them out

gillybob - how sad for you to see your once-lovely garden so neglected. My sister planted a lovely flowring tree in her garden and the following year sold her house. The tree had flowered beautifully and was still small enough to dig up and take to their new garden, but she thought it was rather mean to do that and so, reluctantly, left it behind. Later, when walking past their old house they saw that the new people had cut it down!

gillybob - I so understand how you feel. It took be 30 years to get our large garden 'perfect' (to my mind anyhow) and was hoping to sell to another gardener. But this did not happen - and our house is now a Kindergarten and the lovely owner is not interested at all in the garden- the conifer garden in the front has become a car-park and the conifers (large miniature specimen are soooo expensive) replanted in the corner have all died. I daren't imagine what the large back garden is now like. My only solace is that the pond has been securely fenced off rather than filled with concrete- and the current wilder aspect of the garden is actually great for the 100s of birds, blackbirds, song thrushes, every kind of tit, chaffinches, tawny owls, and so many more + hedgehogs. Onwards and forwards.

I do think that Frank is trolling half the time.

Most of Frank's threads start off quite reasonably.

It's when you lot chip in that the trouble starts.

j08 Isn't that the point of a thread - chipping in?

Errrr... it's how you do it?

#mustknowwhatimean

Really?!?