Like most 'agricultural' products the real cash is up the chain from the producer (went to B&Q the other day and a couple of metres of questionable quality 2x4 was about £7 ... at that rate my trees must be gold plated 🙂) .... because we decided we would break the chain of Sitka monoculture and replant an actual woodland of native species (which will require individual tree-protectors and stakes to get them past the 'murdered by deer' stage) just about all the cash will be eaten up by the replanting .... but then I have no interest in dying rich and a strong interest in leaving something nice behind.
All that being said, I still wish Arwen had blown elsewhere and we could have lived out walking the grassy fire-breaks and paths between the trees in peace and all this upheaval and hassle would have been someone elses problem. 😆
K
Ps Hamwich .... after crossing Bulgaria on a motorcycle, the second scariest run I've ever done was a couple of years back .... up the A9 from Inverness to Wick and back when there was a big logging job on .... trucks were brutal ... ended up taking to the verge half a dozen times or get squashed! ... only thing the A9 was missing was tanks randomly ploughing straight across the road out of their own smokescreens ... seems like they didn't mind a few civilian casualties even when training (this was back in the Iron-Curtain communist days) .... Mrs Image decided that the Bulgarian Highway-Code had only one rule ... Tanks Have Right of Way!
