heeellllooo juco several ways to do this none realy easy

assuming you dont have a recip saw or a jigsaw

ease the board off the wall place batton between the wall and the back of the skirting

if possible lift a bit clear off floor with a bit off wood

use a saw where the teeth are as far forward as possible

now heres the difficult bit

to do a propper job you need to angle back your cut around 45 degrees to tie the edges together
from the main veiwing point of the room you shouldnt see along the cut you should see more accross the cut

i should at this point out your skirting needs to be parralel to the wall to allow a right angled strait cut

get yourself a piece of wood the hieght of the skirting and at least 3"wide  the end of your new skirting will do fine angle back at 45 degrees

screw this to the skirting use this too guide the blade of the saw taking care to get as close to the floor as possible without marking it use a bit of card to help you banging into the floor  but needs to be as thin as possible to cut the most skirting

use the cut off floorboard to set the mitre saw to the nearest angle to the one youve cut

Indeed...a Fein Multimaster was built for this job. Best tool I ever bought and worth every penny.

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Absolutely, the perfect excuse to buy another tool. I wish I had this problem.

RabbitRabbit.....Thanks for the offer but up in Scotland

Aye if you were up here in the next 2 weeks I would buy you a bottle of the stuff and provide accomodation (for sobering up), or we could try and finish a bottle each.  Oooooo a long time since I managed that....and survived!

Skye IS a wonderful place, the last time I was there was before I sold all my motorbikes and we toured Skye and a couple of other islands on the bikes.....a bikers dream.

Juco