sime42
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An Egremont Russet. A "real" apple.
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Food security threatened by extreme flooding, farmers warn WWW.BBC.CO.UK Record-breaking rainfall leaves fields under water, threatening this year's harvest yield and quality.
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Bird mimicking police siren leaves inspector fooled at Bicester station WWW.BBC.CO.UK Simon Hills says the noise was "so accurate" it left officers believing their cars were faulty.
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Spring returned today. It wasn't especially sunny but it was pleasantly warm and most importantly, no rain. There's a 1 in 4 chance it'll make another appearance tomorrow I reckon.
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Yes, I'm getting slightly concerned.
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Blown it this evening. Wordle 1,026 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Another "what's this tree?" thread...
sime42 replied to slicendice73's topic in Tree Identification pictures
Leyland Cypress, Leylandii, I reckon. I can almost smell it from here! -
It's hard to be sure from those photos but some of it could be Lime, Chestnut or Sycamore maybe. No Conifers that I can see, of which the three on your unsafe list are types.
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Ah, right. I thought honour killing was more of a Sikh thing, but maybe it's a cultural practice. The guy has been caught now so the true motivation should come out in due course.
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Nah, it's a tidal swimming pool.
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What elephant? It's too invisible.
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Never heard of eating ferns, but it's definitely a thing, by lots of accounts. They certainly look appetising. I imagine they'd be lovely boiled and then fried in butter, garlic and maybe some chorizo for a special treat. Fiddlehead - Wikipedia EN.M.WIKIPEDIA.ORG
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Great. Thank you.
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Stunning. Would you mind giving us a roll call please? I know a few of the birds in those shots but there's lots that I don't.
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Thanks. This is all good stuff.
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Yes, the barn is clad in tin all over. They'd like to get rid and replace it with something nicer, but probably not keen enough for me to hasten the process!
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Is that assessment based on the fact that it has Die Back, so that much weaker, or a general feeling on long laterals like that? I'd be pretty confident in it being doable if it were a normal healthy tree, I quite like a challenge. It didn't look that bad from the ground. I'm going to use a MEWP now anyway, but just trying to gather knowledge on the implications of Chalara for my own future reference really. Last year, fully dressed in it's leaves, that tree didn't look too bad at all, you could barely see anything amiss with it.
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Nice one cheers all. So a clear consensus is forming, it's a MEWP job. My mates are happy to hire one in and there's a large area of flat concrete to the right of the tree, around the barn, so access should be good.
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I.e. is this tree ok to climb, or is it a MEWP job? It's defintely succumbing, there's lots of epicormic growth shooting straight up from lower limbs. I feel like a bit of a pussy to be asking the question, I'd normally climb a tree like this without a second thought. However, I have no experience with ADB, no idea of the timescales involved. Does the wood only get weak and brittle once the tree has died, this one is obviously very much still alive. The tree belongs to some friends of mine, they've asked me if I want to do it, and they told me they've had another firm in to look who said it would definitely need a MEWP, and quoted as such. Thanks.
