We did that a year or so back, and it has been one of our best presents as get so much daily pleasure from it. Enjoy! (There was a tulip tree here when we arrived, and it now flowers amazingly. Lovely trees but does have a habit of dropping branches on your head)
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It casts a new light on the song “Tiptoe Through The Tulips”.
By Tiny Tim (with an enormous bump on his head).
Tiptoe Through The Tulips, Thud, Ouch 
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That’s a good step on from beans and a tin opener!
Ooh better watch my head then! Not planning on letting them get very big, we’ve had a tulip tree before and came across my first one (when I’d never heard of them) at aged 16, a huge one. Very pretty flowers. Our garden is currently a blanc canvas (moved this spring) which we are enjoying develop.
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By the way - Tulip wood is excellent for carving - I use it to make house name plates etc. Or a branch could be cut into roundels to make coasters or similar.
You could put out some feelers for woodworkers near you who’d put the fallen timber to good use…
Another day older and deeper in debt.
You can’t control the aging but you have some influence over the debt…
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And you run, and you run to catch up with the sun but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in a relative way but you’re older… 
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You’ve set me off on a hunt for the recording I made of the first London performance at the Rainbow 
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Cool!
I recently treated myself to the latest Dolby Atmos / DTS-HD remaster of DSOTM on BluRay and it’s amazing,
ETA: Many years ago I had the SQ quadrophonic release on vinyl - quite fun in its day but of course surround sound tech has moved on a bit since then!!
I had a colleague who used to make traditional Japanese sword scabbards out of tulipwood. He also made Bowie knives with enormous 12" blades and faked Crusader swords. Old school!
Returning to carving bit of thread, I’ve recently reluctantly acquired a 4’ length off boxwood that’s about 5’’ in diameter. Seems a shame to cut it up too much, but have yet to think of a use for it.
Nice cosy slippers with “Semelles Antidérapantes pour Intérieur et Extérieur”.
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It’s a fantastic wood for turning but by God, it stinks to high heaven! I use masks designed to filter out all manner of dust and volatile compounds but even they can’t cope with the stuff that comes out of boxwood. It’s OK once the gouge work is over and it’s allowed to ‘gas off’ for a while before finishing.
It’s superb for making boxes (believe it or not 
).
Don’t t bother with RWs new version of DSOTHM, I was hoping it would be done in the same vein as his lockdown sessions, but it wasn’t and its crap.
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I cut a 20 foot one down last year as it was covered in box moth and were causing all sorts of problems with our hedges, I haven’t a clue how old it was as the chateau gardener said it had been there as long as he had and he is 90 years young.
Nobody wants the wood so it is getting cut up for the fire.
Thanks for the warning. It’ll be a year or two before anything happens with it. All I knew about boxwood was that it was used for chess pieces, so had a a poke around the Net and stumbled across the following::-
'People use chemicals (extract) from the leaf of boxwood to make medicine. But the leaf itself should not be used for medicine. It can cause serious harm, including death.
People use boxwood extract for conditions such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and arthritis, and as a “blood-detoxifying agent,” but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses. (my italics).
Best stick to carving it!
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I like slippers and managed to get my furry Ugg style copycat ones in SU the other week reduced to €7 instead of €15, dark pink and thoroughly washable like the grey ones with blue stars I am currently wearing
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We are surrounded by box wood turners as it was the traditional craft in this area - out with your cows in summer and inside with your turning wheel making mustard spoons and the like all winter. We used to have several in the village and now only one retired one. But major shortage of box thanks to the box moth.
However I never noticed our neighbour’s workshop stinking?
Our gîte was a wood turners workshop originally, and we have cleaned up and kept the pulley wheels and example of what was made.
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Have you seen the price of cosmetic surgery?