'Defensive' is a better term.

There's lovely weather in the Northeast. Not everyone is stuck at home decorating. Could you get out and produce a winter damage report on that heavily-leaning standing stone at Seaton Burn, please? It's listed here as Old Hartley and will fall over (and be lost) unless a professional intervenes.

So EH's sole spokesperson is anonymous and pissed and won't be specific eh?
Sorry we're so touchy and one sided.