tommer9

Beech is also superb flooring. VERY hard, and herd wearing too, however it is a tad plain compared to oak.

Its worth whatever you get on the day TBH.

IN that case your floor must have got very damp. Wood expands when wet, not when dry. To have expanded like that- ie that fast and after that amount of time, (and i have seen that before) it must have got wet from a burst pipe or somethig similar.

Beautiful part of the country.

Heck i am tempted. I am 38 and my missus has taken a job in shropsire (i live 30 miles from lands end) and TBH i feel thAT i could go out there for the summer hols while my son is at my missus' place.......I would LOVE to get out of europ again- its been 6 years!!

Yes they do Mike.........I was somewhat taken aback by the amount of over and unders today.........bit of a towny crowd methinks........ Matt- I used to be involved with a shoot that started out from Bishops Court farm at Shapwick. We used to drive across about 3k acres of farmland all around the area.

:confused1:usually a sign of worms!!

It has to be oak!!!! As above- acclimatise it first. TBH i would have said that a week was a bit short, although for bought in kiln dried stuff maybe not. I assume that you guys have planks with stress grooves cut in the back. If you have underfloor heating get the wood kilned to 6% MC BTw....

I have just made the stock out of the carcass......will probably eat the leftovers cold wit other cold meats for a few days, and in my sarnies for work. Yummy yummy.

Sounds good Mick. I have just got in from a few clays......we put 640 clays up, and there were 6 guns max. Had a few doubles myself which i am pretty pleased with. There were about 10 or 12 of us shooting, and we picked up about 40 good clays at the end. A fair bit of port was quaffed too, so all in all a good afternoon.

Do you do ps3 repairs Spud.........mine blew up this morning lol

Brilliant. Its what you need in a guard dog.

:lol:

I beat my groundy less than normal over the christmas period, and if he really works hard enough I let him have a few hours off on christmas day.

Nice one Tony. I shall get back there tomorrow if poss. The customer was very interested too, and said he would get some better pics with his decent camera.

Dont you feed yours on intruders Dave?:lol:

Dr Johns silver medal, complete dry food. When they were alot more active when we had the farm they sometimes got the Gold medal version which is a bit richer. It is an excellent, well balanced complete dry food, and is only £9.49 a sack too! They get bones from the butcher and the odd scraps too.

Weel I emailed Kew with the pics, and it seems you are correct Tony!! (nto that i didnt doubt you anyway mate) They sent this email: Hi Tom Your message was passed on to me about the polypore (poss B. fumosa) on sycamore. I think it most likely that you have B. fumosa, amongst others, which is uncommon (but likes Acer and Ulmus in my experience and is often found fruiting late/early in the year). Next time you see it have a sniff. (or, if it is very cold out, bring it in a warm room in a container and smell it). One field character distinguishing B. fumosa from B. adusta (beware the latter can sometimes have a whitish pore surface if the brackets are very vigorous and very young) is that fumosa has a sweet anise-like smell when fresh which is lacking in adusta. For confirmation, a spore print should be collected and spores measured, there is a slight difference between the two. If you can go back later on when bracket is more mature and the pores are still whitish buff (not grey at all) I think you definitely have fumosa. I can only find one previous record (on the FRD national database for B. fumosa) in Cornwall dating back to 1800s (J. Ralfs, Penzance) so if you do go back and collect some, dry it and send it to me, we would welcome it in the national fungal collection here at Kew (but probably not worth a special trip unless you happen to be passing or it is nearby). Hope this helps Dr A. Martyn Ainsworth Senior Researcher in Fungal Conservation - RBG Kew Senior Specialist, Fungi - Natural England Made my day!! So any tips on how best to go about the picking and drying of a fungi?

Hi matt- we missed you! Sorry about your dog. Very hard.

That advert just isnt true.

Hahaha busted. Actually I really am not jealous....I havent the stomach for that kind of investment, or even that size of vehicle any more. Ill leave it to the pros lol:)

There is a clear odlourless treatment called Cromar that will kill everything Rob. Once it has dried/ soaked in you would never know the wood had been treated. It works on all these boring insects, and even on dry rot!

Very smart, not my bag at all though.

They are known for their whiskey though above all........This one is a touch over £3000 per bottle!!!!!!