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sime42

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  1. I'd ask your friend if she really wants it levelled. It doesn't need to be and level changes in a garden are generally good, they add interest planting opportunities.It'd be a lot of work to level that for not much gain in my opinion. If you've got to do it by hand then a stump grinder followed by a mattock, a long handled shovel and a big landscaping rake will be the way forward. Plus a generous lunchbox and flask/bottle of drink!
  2. An Egremont Russet. A "real" apple.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Wordle 1,027 5/6 ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
  6. 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.
  7. Yes, I'm getting slightly concerned.
  8. Blown it this evening. Wordle 1,026 X/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩
  9. Leyland Cypress, Leylandii, I reckon. I can almost smell it from here!
  10. 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.
  11. BBC Sounds - The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah - Available Episodes WWW.BBC.CO.UK Listen to the latest episodes of The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah on BBC Sounds
  12. 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.
  13. Nah, it's a tidal swimming pool.
  14. What elephant? It's too invisible.
  15. 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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  17. 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.
  18. The Solar Eclipse Is the Super Bowl for Conspiracists | WIRED WWW.WIRED.COM Far-right conspiracy theorists are claiming that “elites” will use the eclipse to control humanity, sway the presidential election... Coming soon, to a Covid thread near you.
  19. 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!
  20. 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.
  21. 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.
  22. Wordle 1,024 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟩⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 A decent end to the day.

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