Oh that's great news Nettie!
We had a a few trees removed from my place and surrounding neighbours here in Brisbane thanks to the November 2014 bad storm. Terrible storm and damage but wow, it's so great to have more sky.
Also, not long after the storm, a huge flame tree belonging to my back neighbours which took up most of my northern view, decided to cut it down to a stump - joy! No more red flowers stuck to my pavers and those pesky teeny yellow leaves which was my constant bane in cleaning up
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