nepia
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Bossy boots. Anyone would think this was your thread. As promised the specimen from today's work's neighbour.
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I'm still loving this thread and that tree. David, you have a fine pear.
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PM sent; farmer's happy with it. Jon
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Can't wait to tell her that: she was one of many bosses I had in my former life!
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Thank you David: I shall now remember to stick the camera over tomorrow's laurel hedge and grab a pic of the neighbour's pure white beauty.
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Let me ask a farmer: I'll get back to you. Jon
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That may simply be physical damage. I had it with a red oak a couple of years ago: the rhodos had literally scrubbed the bark off the back of the tree.
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A big difference there but could it not also be explained by some local environmental anomaly such as one tree being in light, well-drained soil and the other stuck in a lump of clay?
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Fair point but oceans can release as well as absorb CO2. The more they absorb the greater the potential for release, which happens in geological time, not tomorrow or next year. Currently they're absorbing but their ability to do that is diminishing. That's about the limit of my expertise on the subject so I'm open to education.
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...and ignorant, said in an undemeaning way. I've just sold the remainder of my seasoned cord to a couple who have never considered burning softwood 'because it tars up the chimney', but they have a heap of wet and unsplit (sweet) chestnut stacked for next winter.
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Volcanoes aren't even the biggest contributor. The biggest carbon sink of all are the oceans.
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...when it's just one of hundreds doing the same thing. A particular quote I remember from some TV prog years ago concerns a single volcano in Mexico spewing 10,000 tons of sulphur dioxide every day. That's yer acid rain that is and I thought it came from Hartlepool and landed on Norway!
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Stunning. Didn't look like that Wednesday though; the A9 was wild from Helmsdale all the way to Perth. Makes your day seem all the better.
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Is it the Devon climate that makes Holm Oaks grow so well there? My daughter's at Exeter Uni and there's a fine row of them along one of the entrance roads (St German's Rd I think) but I see very few around here in Surrey. That's a shame because a good specimen is an impressive thing indeed.
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I've been in Caithness and we had small dust storms at Wick on Monday afternoon. On Tuesday an A road near Elgin got closed due to dust killing visibility. All a bit different to Drumochter yesterday morning; it was wild!
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I only asked! Actually I thought the onus was on the landowner to determine if his land was affected by Orders, not on the LA to inform him of any new Orders. Thanks for your input!
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Does a TPO get served? If my TO decided the cedar in my back garden was worth an Order is he obliged to inform me even? I thought not. Ultimately it would surely be down to a court/tribunal to decide at what point an Order became effective. As Orders are required to be available for public viewing this would be the time that it either became visible on the Internet or as a hard copy at the Council offices - no? I need to bow out now I'm afraid; off on a trip to a bit of Scotland where the Internet connection makes dialup look good. Jon
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Thank you: always good to get a theory proved correct.
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But you could maintain your shooting skills on parrakeets!
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Great to hear about the snipe. The only ones I ever saw regularly were when I was a kid; there was a particular patch of tall grassy marsh they liked at Norman's Bay, Pevensey. I had a tired woodcock in the garden in Caterham some years ago; does that count?!
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Absolutely not; there was no TPO in force when you felled and you could not have been expected to know about one in the pipeline. That's why gobs get cut on a Saturday morning once contractors have got wind of TOs showing interest: the TO's not back in the office until Monday.
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I've known the council concerned for many years; mention of the Sec of State's opinion won't change them. After all they will have gone to e-mail only TPO enquiries to save money on staff I guess. To take the main point to its nth degree the LA could be asked to produce analysis of its website to show dates/times of entries and alterations. Refusal to do so would speak strongly for a defendant claiming 'there was no TPO recorded when I checked' and could well be overturned by the Court, i.e. the LA would be ordered to produce such analysis in the name of justice as the defendant obviously has no access to such information. All hypothetical of course.
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Agreed. Mine must be at least 6 years old and they're starting to go along seams. Very good but have you seen the price now? You really pay for the brand. If anyone feels tempted to try the Oregon Brushcutters instead don't; they are nothing like the Stihls. They're very lightweight and tight fitting.
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A slight derail - so soon; apologies - but how many LAs are refusing to do the bit in bold? Re your original question my guess would be that to the letter of the law you'd breached a TPO - it was legally in existence after all - but a Court would impose minimal penalty, if any; it may even refuse to convict. That all assumes the matter got as far as Court, which I doubt.
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The security industry recommends Pyracantha above all else: an absolute horror to encounter and can be hacked about as much as you like. Birds like the berries and they come in red, yellow and orange.
