Tony Croft aka hamadryad

Go gently and youll be fine, they dont respond to heavy handed methods.

We all know why your arb, you love mogs! you had to be an arb to justiy them!

Agreed, the way some people talk/think you would assume that nature is both black and white in hue!

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lol, thats a different kind of chancer, they want EVERYTHING for nothing:thumbdown:

I do appreciate what your saying, that I may be at risk because I am working outside the box much of the time. But arboriculture is as much an art as it is a science, the science has a long way to go to catch up with the practitioners long served instincts. And I think I can be pretty confidant in saying that a lot of those who set the current stage would agree on that.

The smarter man would lay some tarp on that quartz gravel and NOT pick the clippings out of the gravel!

unusual!

You know me better than that me old mate, nice find dude, really nice. actually quite jealous! but dont tell anyone eah!

watch it they will be calling you one of them there tree nerds/hippies at that rate!

see you there, enjoy some cup-o-tea and fish n chips! avitt avvy!

ha, andrews right too! just seen the image, common newt I reckon, protected as well.

a great breed, my Buff was a half bull/half staffy, a mind and character that is of their own! My father always said he has never seen a dog owner combo so well suited, both stubborn as mules! lol

love it! you old gypsy!

cant see the image? found this one in Romania a few weeks ago.

The world is full of chancers, the richer they are the worse they are, what they tend to not realise is this is a known factor, and as with any factor it is in their bills! Dust is easily blown from cars, thats all I will ever feel obliged to do, paying out to valet somebody's car is OTT IMO. I think the worst case I ever heard, a friend of mine was called back twice to remove sawdust from a neighbours gravel drive. Were talking every single grain! and the mug did it too!

Lol, she must of been good!

I had a little bimble again today, and so glad I did, saw my first what i think was a little owl a real in your face experience with a sparrowhawk as it flew straight through a hedge and nearly took me out! Finally bagged a dryadeus that I knew would give up the goods one year, this was the year! BUT now then, now then! I found a long long wanted RDL species of fungi on a veteran/ancient Oak, that fungus is the podocypha multizonata! its nothing much to look at currently but when its fully formed this one is another of those ultra rare ones that I craved for the old book! im going to be checking in on this bad boy many times over the coming week or so! whats special though, is that this tree though in an urban zone, is also very close to a find i made of another RDL species of oaks, Piptoporus quercinus also in a similar situation as this one. found a mahoooosive Ganoderma resinaceum on a VERY poorly Q cerris today. i was shooting it when the owner came out and said that her estate was not a tourist attraction nor even a public road, i didnt have the heart to tell her I had been walking the woods her house was built on since I was a boy! Oh I am a happy fung hunter today! Will have to download images later as there appears to be an issue!

its chunky but lovely lines on it, nice job.

that is an unlikely scenario, can you ever imagine ME letting anyone work on one of my personal trees! they would have to prize the saw from my wrinkly old hands before I did!

lol, dont know if I cut the mustard enough to be that these days!

the fluted birds nest, you little tinker! lovely lovely lovely!

No apology needed! this is my point, I think we know what we WANT from the day we can walk. One way or another, we end up doing those things, even if its not in the industry, we find a portion within an industry that "suits" those aspirations. I started the thread because i wanted to hear how others came to be, what inspired them what drives them, its turning out to be a great set of stories. I have found myself staring at the same tree i pondered as a boy, now as a man, with the answers to the thoughts I pondered on! just thought it was a bit well, like I was drawn back to a long unanswered thought as if to solve another of my childhood riddles about something in nature that puzzled me so.

and yet there has been a copy in the bookclub that as yet has gone unloaned!