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AT THE BACK of our house is a verandah. It’s not the most useful verandah around. It’s a little too narrow to comfortably fit a table setting, and sometimes it doesn’t quite serve the purpose of keeping the rain out of the windows during summer storms.

But there is something particular I like about the verandah, and that is the tree that grows right near it. It’s a massive bottlebrush, badly in need of a

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