I pissed my sides when the lovely old dear said with slight disgust:

"It was very sad when they blow the trees up, some had been there for hundreds of years. It was VERY exciting though!"

The stones were thousands of years old! I have voiced my concerns over Newbury etc, but I didn't think anyone actually went to protect a TREE par se? Trees are fucking trees. Tree history? Surely thats a clock that is repeatedly started by every playschool in the land. The importance here is surely the restoration of a unique monument. Fuck the trees and the residents, who weren't really treated badly at all, unless I missed something? Surely the whole thing is relative?