00:00 Edward, hello sir, how are you doing?
00:03 How are you sir?
00:05 Right, thank you.
00:06 And how long have you lived here then Edward, in terms for you?
00:08 About 38 years now.
00:10 38 years, and this is not the result of your tree surgery?
00:14 No, no, no.
00:16 But the result of the weather on this whopper of a birch tree behind you.
00:21 Just fill us in on what's going on chap, this isn't the first time a branch off...
00:25 No, we've had the council down here, right, and they're saying to us
00:29 all the trees in that lane, they belong to the...
00:33 Erle Dudley?
00:34 Erle Dudley, yeah.
00:36 It's still a public walk away, so it's your responsibility to keep it clean,
00:41 tidy and safe.
00:42 Well that's it, there's a path there isn't there, so people can stroll around.
00:45 Yeah, I'll show you that.
00:46 And you've had your greenhouse there, if we just turn around a bit,
00:49 your greenhouse in the corner.
00:50 I've flattened it.
00:51 Yeah, you've had a branch come down and took it out didn't it?
00:54 Yeah, flattened it.
00:55 Look at it, I was in hospital at the time, or I would have been dead.
00:58 I'd have been working in there.
00:59 Well this branch kind of fell in the border just behind you, didn't you?
01:03 No, it fell there, look.
01:04 That's it, and didn't you say you were working there the day before?
01:09 Hang on, shall we have a look?
01:10 Let's have a look.
01:11 I was working here, look, right.
01:12 Yeah.
01:13 I've been spraying all the pavement, and I was working roughly about here, right.
01:18 And I hear something go, because I'm a bit deaf you see,
01:21 I hear something go, "Wahhh!"
01:23 Yeah.
01:24 And I went like that, and I saw this thing, you know,
01:28 one end was stuck in here, look, like that.
01:30 Yeah.
01:31 One end was stuck in there, one end stuck in the ground.
01:33 Yeah.
01:34 No way, and you were working on this bit before, weren't you?
01:37 Yeah, I was, I was been cleaning all the weeds out, you see, the day before.
01:42 So, I mean, it must, you know, it must concern you,
01:46 if there's a bit of wind or some, even just any time,
01:49 does it make you a little bit wary about where you're sitting in your garden and using it?
01:53 See, I mean, we're told by the council, they ought to get that lot there,
01:56 just, you know, clip it off of it.
01:58 Yeah.
01:59 But they keep saying, "No, it don't belong to us, it's somebody else's."
02:02 But it's like, it's your public right of way, not mine.
02:05 Yeah.
02:06 My government, my, my, probably started, finished it there.
02:08 Yeah.
02:09 So, does it, does it make you, like, wary about sitting in here, you know what I mean?
02:13 Do you kind of, yeah.
02:14 It does, I mean, see that thing falling down on top of you.
02:16 Well, that would have killed you, wouldn't it, do you know what I mean?
02:18 That would have killed me as well, twice now it's happened to me now.
02:20 Yeah.
02:21 So, yeah, you'd like to see, in an ideal world, if we had a magic wand,
02:25 you're not asking for the whole tree to come down, but like, take it, you know.
02:28 No, no, just prune the top off, you know, and that.
02:30 Yeah.
02:31 And when we sit back down, it's a lovely tree, don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful tree,
02:34 but it just wants to always, you know, some of those branches up there are probably rotten now,
02:38 and you can't get them rid of.
02:40 So.
02:41 It'll probably fall on somebody's head and kill somebody.
02:42 So, according to the council, it's the early Dudley's lands,
02:45 so where do you start from there then?
02:47 I've no clue.
02:48 Well, exactly.
02:49 Exactly.
02:50 Well, we'll leave you to, erm, gardening peace, hopefully, without branches falling down.
02:56 See, the only thing I'd suggest, you get the council to actually close the line,
02:59 in case there's an accident in there, and without falling on somebody's kidney, to kill them.
03:04 Yeah, yeah.
03:05 That's what's happening now.
03:07 Yeah.
03:08 That's how you put it in your newspaper, you know, say, you know, it wants something doing.
03:10 Yeah.
03:11 To stop people walking down the line, or actually pruning the tree.
03:14 - Right.
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