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Just posting this for anyone interested, rare to see good older Jonsereds on Gumtree or Ebay - really nice saw in it's day, like the old Husky 268, looks like an early version with the metal brake. Don't know seller. https://www.gumtree.com/p/chainsaws/jonsered-670-turbo-/1242657048 [ame= ] [/ame]

Making the news today, the uncomfortable truth. [ame= ] [/ame]

I can think of two Drumondii I know of that have reverted entirely to green above the graft. In fact I can get a pic of a small one in the next few days which was variegated last year, all green now. .

Worked on many drummondii (large and small) over the years and other variegated trees/shrubs that often suffer from revertion (cut leaf Beech, various variegated shrubs, jap maples) Thr variegated leaves tend to have less chlorophyll so are photosynthetically less efficient than viridescent leaves so the reversion could be a strategy for survival in times of stress or temporary poor growing conditions (drought, bad pruning, storm danger etc) The tree may also be producing more green leaves as an attempt to compensate for lack of sunlight. It's also possible that changes in day/night temperature are affecting leaf pigmentation, which may again result in temporary reversion to green. Green re-growth is generally more vigorous than variegated areas, pruning the green re-growth out can obviously help to retain the variegation. But you need to viewing the tree or shrub every year to stay on top of it. .

Making the news today....anyone see the Sunday Politics show? Well said Douglas Murray - [ame= ] [/ame]

So true

Today's headline in The Times..... "UK Home to 23,000 Jihadists" .

Making the news today..... .

Islam is not part of British culture or history. We are culturally Christian, we owe a huge debt to our Christian heritage and although we essentially live in a post Christian society we should never forget where we came from and what shaped our beliefs. We are culturally Christian if not the religiously faithful believers we used to be. We retain our Christian values although we rarely acknowledge them or reflect on their origin. Europe used to be known as Christendom, this stood in direct opposition to the Muslim world. Islam was never part of British culture. For nearly all of our history we saw Islam as a strange snd dangerous religion. There's an old slate Celtic cross on the Hebridean island of Islay that dates from the 7th century, it's stood there for over 1400 years. If they could ISIS would smash it to pieces with a sledgehammer tomorrow. Don't let our country become Islamic when it clearly isn't and never was. .

anyone who is placating Islam and Islamist terrorists, the appeasers. .

Find it interesting so many leftists and other useless idiots on this thread are actually rushing to defend Islam and even Islamist terrorists even after an Islamist terrorist was responsible for dismembering, mutilating and maiming young girls in Britain this week. People like you are weak minded cuckolds to Islam who stand by with indifference claiming Islam is a religion of peace and we shouldn't be too hard on the Islamists who slaughter our children. You're cowards. [ame= ] [/ame]

His name is Daniel Mull but we'll just call you Dan Ok Dan? .

How much more stupid can you be, Islamists hate girls and women, there was a specific reason they targeted that pop concert. There's an intellectual deficit in everything you say. .

The only positive outcome about all this is that you cant delete your posts so when your kids grow up they'll discover this thread and get to see just how much of a moronic cretin their father was in relation to an Islamist terrorist attack that specifically targeted young girls. .

I'll try to make it clear for you. Islamists relish the sound of young girls screaming as they're dismembered, mutilated and maimed by a suicide bomber at a pop concert. Your pisspoor argument about being 40 etc is facile and unworthy of comment. Grow up FFS. .

young children are wholly innocent and have their whole life ahead of them .

how true

Please tell me this is a joke right? .

Remember folks, Islam has nothing to do with Islam. .

Well done Tommy, a true working class hero with balls to say what everyone is thinking - [ame= ] [/ame] .

The 'progressive' left's cognitive dissonance on Islam is astounding, how can they condone the flogging of gay men in Indonesia yet give special privilege to Islam here in the UK? Mark J? Luckyeleven? By the way Indonesia used to be Buddhist/Hindu it's now majority Muslim over 200 million. You see a pattern evolving yet people?