RobRainford

im 21 and think i could be at my physical best within a year or two if i train and work hard enough. ALthough it can depend on the individual, some may not become seriously active until after college or university etc so could take 2 years before they are even close and that could make them 23.

heres a few from my travels, lunges and planking!

Big bump on this one. I've got a few weeks work booked ahead of me but not much certain after that. I got a 2:2 in my BSc which I'm pleased with and now I'm ready for working full time. Happy to travel and have a tent if I need to stay over anywhere! I will be at jonesies show if you want to chat to me there. All details as above! CV available! Thanks for reading

I was really looking forward to this too. Get to see a few familiar faces and see a few new ones. Learn a bit and kick me back into work mode! Just what I wanted after my break. Blooming weather. I still would have come up, in something that would paddle across the grass and taller boots! Maybe next time. It's been good weather this weekend too as others said. Maybe you should have hired an ark instead of a marquee?

Agree to that. Only way to make any decent money is to join together and have big groups all working together. A group of brothers near me does that and they rent a huge amount of land for their crops. Which then gets them kit to match. But they don't live flash lifestyles, I never see them doing anything but working!

What's wrong with him wanting to help me and have a set of useful kit that helps me make money. We live on a farm, farming used to be a family thing but there was jut no money in it so he went in another direction.

the show does seem to be taking a while to arrive! ill be wearing arbtalk t shirts and will come have a go at the axe throw. should be interesting

nice bit of brown oak there Mark Looks like fistulina on that one, got hold of that little oak pretty good and as the brown wood is technically dead then its probably just a lack of vascular capacity that killed it, looking at how much sapwood was left!

Bit of both, I've had help buying bits of kit but I've built up rep and everything else myself. Been told in 10 years I can have the contracting business if I want it.

I'll go halves with ya!

You'll be well prepared for when it is eventually put on though! I've not worked all week. Something about jet lag and playing catch up. Ready to start next week though!

I had the email and call confirming this. Was looking forward to it too! I could have brought a boat instead of a tent

Mine are nearly 2 years old and never had an issue.

I just bought me tent, bit o rain won't scare me off!

Mine came today too. Pleased with them. Cheers Steve!

We used to do this, until things started going missing and the running cost of the vans was halved by not allowing the privelidge.

pics of sycamore too

Been to look at a couple of trees for a client, one is a sycamore with K. deusta that is dying back and it is fruiting and breaking out of the bark at waist level around the union, thats coming out asap. Another is this willow, called 'Veronica' This tree is a reason the house was bought, it provides/d a screen from the house but i reckon that putting a wall and driveway on its root system before the clinet moved in was a death sentence, there is A. gallica (thanks D. Humphries) at the base and the crown is thin and dying back. The tree seems to want to be retained as long as possible, i said we can get some of the branches pruned off and then replanted close by to replace the screen and keep part of it living on. It will be getting a bit of a tidy up prune, raise some branches up as its touching the floor nearly in places and remove any dead and dying bits, as little as possible to reduce the stress. I have planned to mulch the base extensively where i can on the grass to give it some help, but i couldnt guarantee it will survive. If it doesnt manage much after a mulching, then it will probably get felled. WIll it survive for long? the Armillaria seems well in there and is bleeding and fruiting out between bark plates. Opinions on this, ive planned what im doing but is something id like to discuss.

Tree is also bleeding in places. Which now makes me think armillaria? There has been a driveway put in 18inch from the base of the tree a few years ago by the looks of it. I can't see root damage but I'm assuming there probably was at some point to put a wall in.

What's this? Can't come to a conclusion with myself. Crown is showing signs of stress and is sparse above where these fungi are. Thanks

I'll order one of each off eBay Steve.

I'm coming. Got people to meet from my America trip the same weekend too so double reason for me to come down!

I sent payment and info off end of may. Should hope I have a place! Nothing specific I want answered tony. You know where I'm at! Will be interesting to get your side of the basic stuff. I'll bring me tent!

The fungi pictures looks like a coprinus sp. the tree is probably declining due to the huge wound on the side which has let other pathogens in but they haven't shown presence yet. The coprinus is a saprophyte so is decaying already dead wood.

Do it at Myerscough. RobArb is on the FD. I've just finished the bsc onsite and tbh I would have struggled doing it online!