Tony Croft aka hamadryad

I is a cock-o -knee! PMSL

I am so with you on that!

while your here pete the B|M|s meeting open free to all is right up your alley this year!

was defo and still is one of my all time top books, 14 years on and still very relevent and important. Dr david Lonsdale is the daddy! and a perfect gent to boot:thumbup:

I love the arb sarcasm!

always struggled with that one, get a life! lol:lol:

yes thats what I am talking about, thats YOUR buzz, but what made it so?

Its about a certain fungi and a certain tree and the nature of the relationship, especially the expressions of the body language/morphological changes in the tree. Its unique aspect is going to open a tin of worms! what was your injury?

I messed up school too, but that doesnt stop us becoming something does it? what is it about tree work thats kept you in it, and made you miss it in recent months?

looks like?, grow a pair man! lol:lol: hows the drum?

I've had a lot to think about recently, im on the verge of a few things and ever since our Mr Humphries asked me this question " what influenced you to take your current path/interests?" I have been pondering EXACTLY what has been driving this insatiable quest. Its taken me a few years to pin the answers down, but recently Ive been backtracking through my years as I ponder a book, and a while ago I went to visit a tree that always fascinated me as a child as a young man and now as i return to it the man I've become, and I find that tree to be a key example in a PHD study I am working on! I find it rather interesting that this tree, an old oak which filled my mind so many times as a boy should become one of those that in part completes my lifes ambitions and makes me wonder, is our path in our earliest influences, are we almost set from day one? I always knew I was going to be a naturalist of sorts, I was glued to Sir David Attenboroughs programs and as a child it was nature that fascinated me, my bedroom was a zoo, fish tanks full of great diving beetles and crested newts. I never set out to be an arboriculturist, I was working with father as an industrial engineer, then one day, my father realising I was not the indoor type told me of a job going with a family friend, and now here I am contemplating a book and a PHD project that will be unlike anything thats been done before, i know because I've been told so! I have always struggled with a lack of confidence and insecurity, but I am beginning to feel like i have nothing to prove, that i was born to do THIS, I think I have found my centre, the next ten years are going to be a lot of work, and the steepest learning curve I've ever known, but do you know what, i was born for this challenge, and nothing can prepare me better than that! So, what influenced YOU, why are you HERE at THIS point, is there some obvious link that drove you to the here and now? Are we destined to do what we do, does life push us in the direction we was meant to go in, or do we go in a direction we find ourselves in, randomly and without purpose?

Some good info on Phytopthoras http://www.forestry.gov.uk/pdf/fcin30.pdf/$FILE/fcin30.pdf

nuff said, its THE one.

WHAT AN UNFORTUNATE NAME FOR A YOUNG GIRL! Candida albicans can cause infections (candidiasis or thrush) in humans and other animals!

IS bacterial wetwood

Nice one

Did you know there is a white version aslo, called Candida

yes, Thats my point, I just bee talking about this with one of its head honchos. ancient tree forum. 12000 members has arbtalk, and hardly anyone knows what ATF is, they need to up their game bigtime. 5 years its been going

is it logged for the ATF?

keep the thread on track, with an applanatum like that in your avatar! no chance! thought I did anyways!

thats my job fella! always glad to help:thumbup1:

Being on beech as Pfeifferi is somewhat though not exclusive species specific to beech. and I know only pfeifferi to go so black and hard.

Till the guys that hire you find an equaly skilled but cheaper dude! Gibbon, I can probably swing a few days of at a time, what sort of thing are we talking about, have always fancied coming down and doing a :thumbup1:bit with you.

im with slack, reckon thats the eyed