I’ll do it for £900.
Come on. You can trust me.
Nope, don’t know anyone. The garden centre who recommended him seemed to rate him and his nephew well saying they’re never short of work and good workers.
And you can trust me to slap your legs if you don’t shut yer gob 
Hi Pestles
It can quite easily cost £1,000 to cut down and remove a tree these days, so although £800 is a lot of money, I don’t think you are being ripped off. So long as they do as you have asked of course. say it takes three days then that’s wages for two people for three days, plus they will have to pay for anything taken to the tip, our local tip charges £2.50 per bag of rubble.
Hi Dingalongalingalo
When you said you didn’t think I was being ripped off, I thought yay!! 
Then you said about it might take 3 days etc etc. He reckoned it would only take a day for them to do it!
So, it’s making me nervous £800 for one day’s work, although it’ll be hard graft, and yes, like you say there’s charges for tipping etc.
Is it still a good deal? £800 for one day’s work …
… still wringing my hands
Promises, promises.
Difficult to say without actually being there really. Eight tons of top soil could easily cost £400
I realised after he phoned I should have asked how much 8 tons of soil was, but never mind. I’ll ask him when he phones a few days before they actually do the job
I think I’ve resigned myself to pay out and have done with it. There’s so much stress trying to find someone that might actually do a good job at a fair price. I seem to have spent years doing the same thing over and over and I invariably get it wrong :o
Sometimes it can be too stressful shopping around for the best deal Pesta. So long as they do as you ask and you are happy with it then you don’t need to worry.
Hope you manage to catch all the froggies and their spawn, else it don’t bear thinking about.
Shame it’s in the middle of the breeding season. 
You might get mistaken for a garden gnome with your fishing net.
You should get your photo taken with a big pointy had on. 
Thanks Dingy, my thoughts too. Plus feeling able to trust them is a big thing too.
I think this guy will cover all of that.
Mups, the frogs have been holding mass orgies these last few days. So noisy. Yesterday when I got up the spawn was there. For the first time, I cringed. I might end up being a murderer. 
I realised it’s no good putting the spawn in the stream, it’s too flowing, never static. They’d be washed away and beaten up. 
Plus I know the frogs and newts usuallly keep going back to the same pond - imagine when they roll up and it’s a load of soil and plants
It’s been so damp, last night the path was littered with newts. I nearly trod on two on the mat right outside the back door. But for the night light I would have. :surprised:
I will miss all that. But, it has to go.
You are so lucky, having all those newts and frogs.
Just a thought, but I wonder if you could get something like a baby bath at a charity shop or similar, and just sink in the ground to help them over this year, just so the spawn stands a chance at least?
You could save a bit of weed from the big pond and put in to make some shade, and some sort of ramp so they can climb in and out the sheer sides perhaps? Just to get them over this year,then you could dispose of it after they have grown up and left home.
Actually Mups I thought just that - putting it in a container in the garden. The only thing that’s in my mind is rats. There’s a few around and I wondered if they’d eat the spawn.
Would do you think?
Funnily (well not funny) under the outside tap I have a large empty Ronseal paint container to catch the drips. I recently found a dead mouse in it. It’s got quite high sides and smooth so have no idea how it got in there.
Imagine rats who are larger than mice doing the same thing with a container with the spawn in it. :surprised:
I wouldn’t have thought rats would eat the spawn, but I looked it up and just as well I did.
Have a look at this. They have a few questions and answers.
https://www.froglife.org/info-advice/frequently-asked-questions/spawn-tadpoles-problems/
Mind you, if rats are a problem, they will eat it where it is anyway, won’t they?
Can’t you get someone in to deal with the rats? They breed like wildfire otherwise.
Ahem?
Fingers crossed, the spawn only just been spawned as of yesterday, so far it’s still there. 
The rats appeared (again) when the neighbours put the food out for the birds in the winter. :twisted: They’ve stopped that now.
The neighbours on the other side put traps down. I must admit I haven’t seen any for a few days.
Edited… haha, just checked your post and you’ve put a link in Thanks!
As this is the spawning season you shouldn’t be doing anything. I’ll tell Ken Livingston.
The spawn starts hatching in about three weeks I believe, so will be a bugger trying to catch all those tadpoles to move.
Perhaps best move it soon, before it hatches do you think?
I would use the pond water in the baby bath, not fresh tap water too.
Hope it works and saves some lives. Fingers crossed.
Yes, good thinking. Now the weather more amenable, ie it’s stopped chucking it down for a few days, I’ll get onto that.
I’ve got quite a deep container, it’s an old squarish bucket type thing that’s really for the rollers used for decorating. That’s quite high so should keep any wildlife baddies away and keep them safe.
I’ll put some plants from the pond, obviously the water, and a stone or something, for when they grow up and are able to jump out and away 
All I can say to that is ‘I know’. 
And, I’m petrified at you telling Ken
Good luck. 