sean

Top Man!!

Whats it like for twisting and getting in a mess?

I'm a LIdl convert......thet fantastic salamis and hams (german and Italian and Spanish for a fraction of the cost of the Big shops. Own brand breakfast cereals are half the price and the kids taste no difference.....sooo many bargains and cheap beers. Doesnt take care of all our needs but for everything else we shop local.

Thats fine....thanks for reply:001_smile:

Hi Paul....How many places are available please? Thanks.

Came across this and was wondering if perhaps a bird had used this as a holding vice to get the snail out? If so, very clever.

Maybe thats something you should be discussing with them?

Large failed limb on Oak. Showing Brown cubical rot and white Mycelium sheets of Laetiporus Sulphureus?

Brilliant....well done mate.

Magical place...

You don't think I get down there do you David? Why do you think I had kids? It's nice of you thinking they have the potential to sell. Cheers.

Realm of the Fungi.

A woodland floor perspective of 7mtr circumference Ancient Oak:001_smile:

Heres a good story:001_smile: Oldest Known Fruit Tree In U.S. Still Bears Pears After Nearly 400 Years (VIDEO)

Ditto:thumbup1:

Hawthorns in a Bristol meadow

Thanks mate. This was on a 7mtr Circ (possibly bundle planting) Oak......have some piccies up later.....it's a beaut!!

cheers.... i think.......guess im just going to have to up there one day! How common on Oak are Fomes david?

Any ideas what these are in the Crown of an Oak? I'd climb up and get some shots and possibly a segment but theres a bees nest in that there hole.! Could it be Fomes Fomentarius?

fantastic......more jealous than Humphreys

Couple from Sherwood Forest including The Major Oak dated 19th Century by Andrew Mccallum

"The small brained animal, primed to hate, straining at the end of a short leash, is universally recognised as bad news. And the dog, his yelloweyed, drooling familiar, the killing machine, is not much better. The relationship is a mistake, a dangerous misconception, a perversion of actual needs. The dog as protector becomes the very thing that must be protected against, squat embodiment of threat. Man curses this creature, thrashes it with a chain in a ferocious show of love. If it were possible he'd wear that burnished pelt like a new vest, the dogs snarling mask in place of his own. He's zip himself inside the hot skin and take the world by the throat.The dog channels, gives sculptural form to prodigious spite. Jolts of electric tension pass through the links of the chain. The man believes he is tethered to an heraldic cartoon, his own courage expressed in meat form. His phallic extension has achieved independence and swaggers beside him, twins that would put the Krays to shame. The dog is prick with teeth. Its balls are so heavy it rolls from side to side in a ruptured waddle. The ultimate carnivore, incests glory." Ian Sinclair 'Lights out for the territory'

For the owners??

SYLVA • reviving Britain's wood culture

A follow up of sorts to John Evelyn's 17th Century seminal classic Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-Trees and the Propagation of Timber. (which I have been dipping into recently and highly reccommend). A great looking book and I'm sure it will be a fine read. (Just ordered a copy from the local library! SYLVA • reviving Britain's wood culture you can 'look inside' the book on amazon.