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Friday, September 12, 2003

Pear tree drama

Not a very good picture, but those were the twin peaks of the old pear tree which had to be felled after being weakened by honey fungus. Its loss has had a dramatic effect on the views from Willesden Herald House.

Mick, a friend of Edmund Redmond Woodward (proprietor of the Willy) recommended a tree surgeon to come and provide an estimate for the job. Ed phoned some other contractors for estimates too, but they were very expensive. Next day, a contractor turns up in Reception asking to look at the tree, and the Receptionist buzzes through to Mr Woodward.

"Ask him if he was sent by Mick," says Ed.

"Yes, he was sent by Mick."

"Okay, let him through."

The guy goes through and returns with an estimate. It's about the same as the others, and so he gets the go ahead. Great alarums and excursions as the tree is being felled. Then a call comes through for Ed.

"It's a tree surgeon."

"Put him through."

"Hello, Mick asked me to contact you about a problem you're having with a tree?"

"Didn't you send someone already?"

"No."

"Well who the hell is outside cutting down the pear tree?"

It turns out that "Were you sent by Mick?" is not enough verification for people in the tree-felling game. Most of them can answer "Yes" to that question.

Feargal Mooney

1 comment:

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Oy!

What do you mean, "not a very good picture?"

Post by : Ossian Lennon (host81-128-246-113.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )


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Pulp

It was probably an undercover agent from the liberal party felling any dodgy looking tree to make the paper to print the unending stream of propaganda littering the highways and byways of our glorious borough. Have you seen the one masquerading as a newpaper special edition? Brent News? Was it, perchance, produced out of Willesden Herald House?




Post by : qB (iroquois.demon.co.uk / qB@SPAMLESSfrizzylogic.org )


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Well, Sarah Teather might be seen drinking out of a Willesden Herald mug, so that will add to the rumours. The Tories are saying that the Liberals are b-s merchants, and that only they (the Tories) have any chance of beating Labour. Funny how they all claim the same things for themselves and deny them in their rivals. No, not very funny.

Post by : Feargal (host81-128-246-113.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )



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