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Try and get hold of a bottle Posada del Rey. Spanish red, not too expensive. But REALLY good. With a nice chunk of stilton or camembert you're well away

No, mine's black, maybe I could bleach her white then spray paint her pink just like that one. That's not too cruel is it??

Always wear a vest on a cold day

Exactly. Keeps the joints warm in the cold water. Seem to know quite a bit about Poodles Lee. Maybe you're closet fan!!!

I'm not ashamed mate....she's great.....just a bit gay. Maybe it could be my way in to the "pink pound"!!!!!!!!!!!

Apparently so, they were bred for retrieving wildfowl from water, and are actually meant to be one of the most itelligent of all dog breads. I took her to the beach today and she loved the water.

You may remember a few months ago I started a thread about should I or shouldn't I get a dog. Thanks for the replies people. We (the wife and I) decided to get a dog. Having got a wife and a daughter I'm sure you'll apreciate my decisions are well down the pecking order (anything tho keep the two girls happy and my life easy!!!) So...........we got the dog wait for it..........................a standard POODLE, and as much as I tell all I meet that they "are infact hunting dogs" it still remains to say I fear I have the gayest dog. Oh and by the way she's named after a ballerina (just to rub salt in the wounds) And yes she comes to work with yours truely. Can anyone out there top trump that??????????????

Think I'm with you there mate!

Don't forget this has been going on for 2 years and I guess that she has said about the re-planting after the TPO were put in place. And the trees weren't protected until she went to them to ask to fell them because of the letter she had recieved from the highways. As regards to knowing because she's the land owner you're right but I guess she was just making the council aware of her intent. I doubt if she'll be doing that again in the future!!!!!!!!!!!! A real tricky one me thinks. Sorry for the confusion but that's the story as I know it.

I think an act of desperation to try to get them to allow her to get the trees felled

Too right, it's a suggestion that apparently the lady has already made to the council bods

I got quoted £2000 + advertising costs + Diversion set up by Kent Highways today to close a real backwater country single-track road. And they want 3 months notice!!!!! Good or Bad??? .I feel that it's excessive

Not many trees in the area, so I guess they want to retain some greenery??

Tell us then

Very good!!

I know......... I've been getting away with calling myself an Arborist for years now!! Childrens harnesses is a different ball game though!

Anyone out there who has children who likes to climb. My daughter is nearly 6yrs and says she would like to climb a tree with her daddy. Had a quick look on google and there's a few out there but I've no idea what's what!!! Any recomendations peeps??? Thanks

20k seemed a lot to me aswell, but that's what the lady said.

Looked at a job yesterday..........3 ugly, knarly, crappy Poplars to fell. Reason to fell............Highways had noticed that the roots are lifting the pavement and tarmac and wrote letters to the owner saying "if they didn't sort them out that they (highways) would repair the pavemants at my clients cost." I think these trees should come down, they've dropped limbs in the road in the past and the tarmac damage is significant. So.........my clients got in touch with he council (by the way this is 2 years ago!!!) and asked if bearing in mind what the Highways have said if they can fell the trees. The council said NO and slapped TPO's on them!!!!!!!! So now we have 2 council depts. fighting on whether or not to fell the tree. My client told me that Highways have said to her they will come and sort the path out and just chop off the offending limbs ( in my book that's willfull destruction of a protected tree) She reckons that to date this has cost her 20k Joined up thinking.........my arse!!!!!! Imagine how much council tax money country wide is wasted on inter-council dept rows like this Feel a bit better now!!!!!!!!Thanks for the rant

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Picked up a nasty footie injury 15years ago and resulted in a arthroscopy of the left knee, medial ligament, patial removal of catilidge and a couple of nice scars to boot. I found the recovery for this pretty speedy really, nowadays I don't think you even need to go into plaster as I did All was good up to about 7ish years ago then had another twinge so had an MRI and was told that I'd buggered the cruciate ligament up aswell...........happy days. My knee is quite unstable now but liveable with. A physio once told me that if you can function well for the majority of the time with maybe only 2-3 episodes (flare ups) per year, why go for the op? It's amazing how careful you can be, and after time it just becomes natural. Sometimes when jumping off the back of the truck it twangs, swells up hurts like hell for a week or so then slowly tails off. I've taken that advice, as like you the recovery time for this op is 2-3months (for our physical job) scares the pants off me. Both financially and mentally!!! But I feel that the op for me to have the re-build is inevitable. Who wants to take a perfect body to the grave anyway??????? Let me know how you get on old chap?

Take care mate, hope everything works out swell. Be good to catch up before you go??

Puppy hasn't relieved itself on the carpet for 3 days.........oh the joy!

I would say it's a small/medium tree, my client likes the idea of the non-invasive systems, but that's useful to know for the future-thanks. An hour should do it then????

How long does it take to brace (boa/cobra) a simple 2 stemmed tree then??