Last night, just on dark, the neighbours lit this huge stack of branches - and then the sparks caught the bamboo hedge on fire, resulting in a fire brigade callout! Not a very good image as I couldn't be bothered using the tripod.
@happypat about 25 years ago, the trend was to plant Leyland Cyprus as shelter belts. Unfortunately, they are all dying now with some kind of canker. This was a pile of already dead tees. In the next couple of weeks we are also going to take out a long line of the same.