When I started to make a rough inventory of the trees
that might be removed, I discovered that numerous of
the trunks of the very tall wild cherry trees behind
north-east the hedge and between the house and the
Boys' School had been deeply incised with a chain saw 
in such a way that in a storm they would be likely to
collapse onto the roof of the house. I infer this to
be deliberate sabotage, - but it might also be mindless
stupidity. In any event, these badly weakend trees need
to be felled, sooner rather than later, and I have left
a message on Nick Parsons' answering machine asking
whether he would do this for me. (I imagine my parents
in such a situation and their anxiety.)

In last evening's telephone conversation I forgot to
ask whether you had sent the voided check and the 
pdf printout to Fidelity.