A fantastic job with the cloning and nice post on this image Rob. This looks like a hedge trimming job I wouldn't want to do. Wonderful textures and colours in your photo. Very nicely done.
You definitely live in a different part of the universe from where I am, Rob. I've never seen ivy (or is it their lawn?) covering the entire front of a building. You did an outstanding job with the cloning. I occasionally head downtown for building shots and have had some success cloning. It's slow and tedious work, but it worked very successfully in this posting. Unfortunately the folks in the VB will only see a house - not all of the skilled work that went into the car removal process.
oddly, i like the gray sky in all of this. oh, and the cloning is indeed a great job.( i had no idea you cloned until i read everyone's post, but im going to pretend like i did, I can appreciate how great your technique is however)