Thanks. I wasn’t there, so the photograph was the first thing I saw as well. Without sounding disingenuous, or too like Cromwell, I admit to being rather appalled myself by what I had done. There are perhaps two things to say in this context. The existence of the allee itself was always an accident. It was planted as a hedge by my mother and ‘bolted’ between her regime and Nori and Sandra’s. For that reason, the trees were always far too close together and the whole thing was in danger of toppling. This isn’t an excuse, simply something that would have happened in due course. The other point is how enthusiastic people have been over the last week or two, and in contrast, about the possibilities offered by the photographs of the whole cleared site.
 

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