rural pursuits 2: completing the big prune

My hysteria has subsided and I am grateful to Juan for providing a "solution" to the car park maintenance debacle. The course of action already determined by the neighbour's chain-sawing, it was just a question of truncating the remaining branches as high as possible. So, this morning, Juan risked life and limb at the top of what looks like a telegraph pole but is in fact the diminished tree (see 12 Jan entry).

last moments for maple "Saccharinum Wieri"

Neighbour Matthieu still took the line that all trees benefit from this massive kick up the butt ("Look at the trees in the forest, they're full of dead wood because they haven't been pruned"). I refrained from comment but am relieved that, once again, we all seem to be interacting like normal human beings.