Graham
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Leylandii.
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I wrote my car off six weeks ago. 7am in Wales and of the only two cars on the road one stopped completely because 'there was a rabbit in the road'. I had a trailer with a bike on it so it pushed me on a bit. If the airbags and seatbelt pretensioners go off then it's generally a write off.
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The village I live in is at the end of a five mile cut through on a nice B road between two A roads. It has a good surface but twisty and you can't see through the bends. Come commuter time the race starts with the BMW/Audi, slick sunglass wearing types driving through like they're on the motorway. I used to worry myself everyday knowing my son and daughter had to use this road on their mopeds to get about but fortunately they got through that stage of their lives. There are skid marks and holes in the hedges along this road which bear testament to accidents and near misses. I must be hated to be behind in my truck as I tootle along at 40mph. I pity any poor souls who have to travel these types of road on bikes and mopeds etc.
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Ficus benjamina
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Need to get them planted out now as they are notoriously difficult to establish:001_smile:
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On the front page bullet point all services rather than full stops. Watch the spacing on areas covered. At the mo there are no spaces after the commas. Just scans better. The rest seems fine to me.
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I can't imagine many men nowadays capable of moving sacks like that. I've worked with body building types who brag about what they can lift and carry but they're pretty useless outside of a gym. I remember my old man who was brought up on heavy farm work...5' 8"..no great physique but arms and a back that were wirey and like hardened steel.
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Bit of butter on them:001_tt2: Lovely job.
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Surely that has AV. Looks like it has.
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I would guess that it refers, not to a particular spp, but the fact that fast growing coppice birch twigs have a reddish tinge.
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At 16 I was told to go and ask Harry for a long wait (weight I thought) by the mechanic who was fixing the MF135 I was driving:001_smile:
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Dodgy Ebay listing Bewarned do not buy this truck!!
Graham replied to arniecardigan's topic in General chat
Was that the picture of the truck you bidded on? Looks as if it was used to carry salt! -
In my Dads' day 2 and a quarter cwt was a standard sack of grain. That's 18 stone. Sacks were placed on your back to be carried up the granary steps...a test for any man!
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Possibly Phytophthora austrocedrae or could be aphid damage.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Thank you both. I shall have a go with the sucker method and hardwood cuttings. If you want details re. location etc just let me know. The Spanish project sounds interesting.
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The tree in my avatar is an English elm. A lone survivor from many hundreds of elm that died around it. I fancy trying to propogate from it but reading previous posts I'm not going to take the secatuers to it in summer. What are the chances of hardwood cuttings striking if I take them in Nov? Infact that whole hedgerow is elm.
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Shame it was shot although I once shot one in the dim and distant past. Although they'll take a few chicks and eggs they have an immense part to play in the distribution of oak trees. Studies have shown one bird will move and bury up to 5000 acorns between Sept and Oct. One study in Germany showed 250 birds buried 3 tonnes of acorns over a 20 day period. Quite a bird.
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Heard curlews flying over today. No doubt finished breeding further north and making their way somewhere else. The waders are starting to move now the days are getting shorter!
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We have lots of cuckoos on the heathland. They love those meadow pipit nests. Been out with the dog tonight and they're still calling and flying around. Be gone next month though. Where you used to hear and see them on ordinary farmland they've virtually disappeared. Plenty of jays about and they'll always give themselves away at this time of year if there's a cat about. See them more in the Autumn when the acorns are ready.
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That's looking good:thumbup1:
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Beautiful writer. Yes he contributed to Shooting Times along with another good 'un...Fred J Taylor a proper countryman.
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Re. the last pic. Any chance of a clear close up? Is there any root girdling? May be above or below ground.
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The times, they are a changing...............
Graham replied to David Humphries's topic in Picture Forum
Showing original photo of 1890. In the third pic the oak tree has been felled. -
That's one I would love to see. I used to read BB's accounts of them in his wood in Northants. He used to collect the eggs from the sallow leaves and raise them to maturity before release.
