All of the stories celebrating the regrowth are from August 2024. They describe 12 “sprouts” - with a hope that they might grow into something more. As of March 2025 - they hadn’t.

You claimed the tree was “regrowing with vigour” - this is simply false at this point in time.

It is absolutely not “regrowing with vigour”. When I visited six weeks ago, there was one very small sprout a few inches in size.

For comparison, we had to fell a mature sycamore on our land last year; this now has more than a dozen shoots growing from its base, ranging between six and ten feet tall, all with lots of leaves on them.

Cash is backed by a government that can exert influence and control over its population and counterparts with policy, laws or - at the extreme end - force.

> The NFL seems to be quite particular (in a good way) about the quality of the delivery of their content

Alas, my experience with the NFL in the UK does not reflect that. DAZN have the rights to stream NFL games here, and there are aspects of their service that are very poor. My major, long-standing issue has been the editing of their full game “ad-free” replays - it is common for chunks of play to be cut out, including touchdowns and field goals. Repeated complaints to DAZN haven’t resulted in any improvements. I can’t help but think that if the NFL was serious about the quality of their offering, they’d be knocking heads together at DAZN to fix this.

We had a very similar experience in Paris. Six of us were running in the Paris Marathon, and we'd booked an AirBnB months in advance. Come the week of the marathon, the booking got cancelled by the host without explanation. When we politely enquired as to why our booking had been cancelled and whether there had been some kind of mistake, we got a four word reply: "My husband is DEAD".

If I recall correctly, AirBnB didn't allow the host to rebook the same period once they have cancelled a booking. That was no matter to the host - we later found the same property listed on another platform. AirBnB were unable/unwilling to find us alternative accommodation. And as guests who had been left massively inconvenienced and out-of-pocket, we weren't able to leave a written review or give a low rating to reflect our terrible experience - they simply end up with a brief "auto-review" to say "The host cancelled a booking with X days notice."