Tony Croft aka hamadryad

This fascinating article was just posted on a Facebook page by Jill Butler, thought I would put it here for anyone interested in such things. Its basically the discovery of an ancient stone map in a cave of its local surroundings with good hunting and forage potential. I find this sort of thin awesome. World's oldest map: Spanish cave has landscape from 14,000 years ago - Telegraph

I would agree with that, our Tom had one and bits of it fell of within a month, but it is VERY comfortable. Ive had 3 (one personal, 2 at work over the last 6 years) tree austria 3's now, and have the detachable seat which makes life very comfy on big trees and avoided constriction of main arteries in the thigh, which was getting to be an issue for me. Before these I was a Komet (no seat version) fan, but since finding the tree austrias improved weight and comfort benefits wont ever look to another till production ceases.

could you elaborate "reiterative distal tissue annihilation" for us more linguistically/academically challenged folks?

agreed

LOl, fair test me thinks! hows it feel!

great shot, would you mind if I posted this elswhere?

It is criminal how far our manufacturing industry has fallen, my father and his father where industrial engineers, sadly the markets for the work slowly fizzled out. I guess they could have tried harder, diversified ect but manufacturing in the U.K is just nigh on impossible these days. Like my father, there are so many now aged men with so much skill and knowledge, when they are gone, there will be little left to make a comeback. My dad was a Rolls Royce engineer, he is easily worth 30-50k a year, but can only get a part time job fixing up hotels. Its battered his self esteem, breaks my bloody heart to see him like it, he was and always will be one of the hardest working men I will ever know. Been a long while since I thought about all that, the title hits a nerve, we was a nation of engineers, now look what we have.

Steve, if you cant see the difference between my posts in this thread to jonny, and his posts to me I guess you wouldnt. I am not denying this forum does some very posative things, but my personal experience of this forum is that certain individuals get away with far too much. had i made a post akin to Jonnies blatant insult/attack I would have received a few strong warnings. now I am all too aware ive had my own moments with members of this forum, and made a complete tit of myself, but that is history and i have learned from my mistakes (I hope:biggrin:) So for me this is a double standard, and an acceptance by yourself and Mr Sorenson of what was for me personally a rather undue and unfair personal dig, with a re iteration from tony I guess is no surprise. I have for the record always maintained that I am no academic, and not even in possession of the most basic quals, therefore my opinion is therefore just that, and people are entitled to take it or leave it. To be so fragrantly insulted on forum "There is plenty more miss-information and claptrap in that functional iliterate cess pit of 16000+ posts if you care to read a few (if you are able of course)" and to see MY name mentioned in a moderators retort with no mention to the poster of such an uncalled for personal "jibe" is highly revealing, to all I might add. I may have asked some difficult questions of Jonny, may have even been a bit sarcastic, but downright insulting? Ive even asked Jonny (whoever he is) privately what his beef is with me in th hope of extending an olive branch, no reply as yet. At the end of the day, I couldn't care less about what effect this has all had on my status (which is laughable and entirely a fiction in this cyber space environment) But what I do care about is that 16000 posts of time, a great deal of time and effort with many superb and unique photos, have been basically wiped out as a total complete and utter waste of mine and everyone else's time, with no arguments from two mods, yourself and Mr S. Jonny still has not replied to the question as to how many scenarios relevant to this OP's question/scenrio he has encountered, I felt it was worthy of an ask as he was so involved in the thread without actualy offering substance to the situation, only attacks on others trying (if poorly) to assist the OP. I would like to think my posts regarding the scenario where helpfull, all "jibes" between myself and others aside. I have felt VERY unwelcome around here for some time, and to come in and have another go after dealing with my own "AT" ( I got too involved, with sincere and good intention) demons only to end up here again within a day or two just confirms my feelings regarding the very real fact that i seem to have become more a pain and a burden to the forum, rather than a blessing, that feels like negativity to me.

I tell you what, I know a man who uses the term, and if he said it, you can bet your flippin bottom dollar you wouldnt be so pedantic about it then!

Trust you to butt in, dont fret, im not in for long, way to big a negative vibe on this forum for the likes of me to stand these days, way over my head! I will take that as a subtle hint regarding the quality of information and refrain from any technical or constructive advice in all futures. I wouldnt want the forum to have its reputation tainted by such dribble as the cesspit of posts you have all endured at my hands. im off to the lounge for a laugh!

For the record folks cambium becomes dis-continuous in such a scenario, and therefore the word "Chanel" applies very aptly.

wow, you really are a smashing chap, namaste. senior.

this will do for me Hilleberg Akto Tent plus 50.00 pound Bonus, Tents

your wet pen, and theirs, they are accepting the liabilities, your giving yours. it is only a legal contract if signed by a person from both parties, they sign two copies send them to you, you sign both keep one send the other both parties have an origional document if it comes to court.

only just seen this one callum, shall do me bit. as with others, good luck on the BSc and let us know how it goes.

gave the TV the elbow recently, so cant!

Insurance, Hire purchase, mortgages and land sales are the four things that in order to be legaly binding MUST be a wet signed contract, check it out for yourselves, dont take my word for it.

whilstwere on the subject of insurance, did you know that if you do not have a wet signed contract you have no insurance, and that legaly the insurance company are not selling you anything and therefore are commiting theft from your acount, again no wet signing of the direct debit mandate. generaly it doesnt get picked up, less your claim is lets say, distastefull to the insurer, then they have a get out clause, they say oops sorry guvnor, heres your premiums back good luck with it all!

sounds like a couple of hours at best, plus some travel, say half a day for a typical ground worker with all the gear and certificates, reckon £80-100 would be more than enough to make it viable.

O have a really good tarp, cant remember where from but me hammocks just a cheap DD one, looking at a treeboat this year though, going to do some canopy sleeping! got my eye on some early morning photos of Deer in ashridge from the canopy:thumbup1: going to be a great year for weekend adventures, going all bush tucker too, carry very little.

still no lids, in fact would be happy to find just a new flask riht now, my 2 ltr is the nuts, dont want a smaller one

yes. well spotted, its the homeowners advice portion of the site which makes this all rather ridiculous! appologies to the OP. Basically Inonotus dryadeus is what you have causing some fairly significant decay (dont panic) for a similar and recent example heres one I reduced end of summer (6 months ago) and have done MANY more all of which are standing, in fact there can be seen three others within a mile or two of this one that have the same issue, and all still stand. It is a widely over estimated fungus, and causes very few trees to collapse, accepted wisdom largely dictates trees are felled but this is just simply not at all needed. In 1 in a thousand cases that may be so, but reduction of the crown (pruning) is usually more than sufficient to ensure no threats. It is always desirable to retain trees of this age and calibre if possible, they add greatly to the ecology of the area. One of the members posting here would have you believe that there is only one option, that of fell and remove, I guess youll have to wiegh up wether you feel comfortable and make a decision, but getting a profesionl in to have a proper look and do a full inspection is the way to go. again i apologise for not realising you was a homeowner looking for some advice, we get carried away here us arbs all battling it out! heres some images of the trees I inspect every year most I worked on at some point, i am soley responsible for many many Inonotus dryadeus colonised trees in many urban loacations.

cant find my one! got an Alladin 2ltr, any pointers!

ha got the same issue same reason! inspiration to have a gander too

if that tents what I think it is that wasnt cheap! looking at a very similar one meself at the mo, going to be doing a lot of weekenders in a hammock with a tarp this year.