David Humphries

Can't believe you didn't give her a chalk bag J. That's bordering on abuse Where was it, Scotland? .

If you haven't already, give this a try. Should be a good starting point. http://www.bats.org.uk/pages/east_midlands.html .

Eldest is 5, youngest nearly 4 .

Me thinks my eldest is developing a good head for heights. With a little encouragement from dad. .

One of the London Borough of Enfields. Not even on the same page Paul http://www.parkexplorer.org.uk/park_intro.asp?ID=ENF11 .

Will do Iain. Trying to put something together with Andrew Cowan at some point during this New Year. I'll give you a bell .

Shame I was away Paul, I would of been very happy to have shown you round 'my patch' Ricmonds' veteran work is carried out by 'The Tree Company' partly to Nevile Fayes' original spec. In dealing with the LTOA (i go to most quartery metings) I haven't found many TO's to be too open to fracturing. In my experience, with regards to the Capital It's mainly ourselves (the City of London) and both the Crown estates and Royal Parks that are progressively and routinely using these types of techniqes. Be very intrested to hear if anyones opinion differs with regards to this in the london area. Regards David

Marcus, how many peolpe are you looking to cater for with regards the discussion meeting ? Although North London, we may be able to offer a venue. Pm me. David

Steve, I currently use a Digital micro probe (which superceded my use of the arborsonic) to provide a visual back up to sounding. I have trialled using Picus. If when budget allows, I will be seeking training and/or bringing in Thermal Imaging. .

I was hoping this was the case, and that we were not having a situation where nice fluffy pictures of photogenic Fb's are being used to determine the extent of an inspectors fungal knowledge Cheers Tim .

Appologies Tim, can you please clarify for me whether or not the Bracket Id you had was either showing pictures of fruit bodes or actual fb's. I may be having a senior moment here Cheers David .

Spotted this bracket whilst out and about yesterday on a neighbouring LA's patch. Thought it worth sharing, as most published shots, show it with the dropletts on the surface. Here hosted on Oak. White rot, potentially making this tree open to wind throw. If it was on my patch, further decay detection would be the order of the day methinks. Pretty high target area. Will give the TO a call. http://www.aie.org.uk/fungi_base/dry..._fungi_p1.html .

Noted this ad, and thought it may be of interest to some. Appologies if it's stepping on the toes of others. Leicestershire County Council is looking for a forestry and arboricultural maintenance firm to look after trees on its council properties. The five-year deal will be worth £750,000 and works will include tree pruning, tree felling, tree planting, maintenance of young trees, stump grinding, chipping and disposal of timber at school sites, parks and other municipal spaces. The contractor will not normally be expected to work on Highway sites. The contract will be for five years initially, with an option to extend by up to two years. The deadline for receipt of expressions of interest is 9 February. For further information contact Nick Fell at Leicestershire County Council, Corporate Resources Department, Property Services, Forestry Group, County Hall, Leicester Road, Glenfield, LE3 8RB. Tel (01163) 056920. Email: [email protected]. .

and on a more arsey note.......................................... thou should never covert to be dained 'Arborist', until thou and thous peers duly concur .

Thou, on discovering thine clients favouritist Beech having Ustulina, should not then proceed to suck the very life force betwixt thine lips, and sayeth......................whshshshsh, that's nasty, s'gonna cost you luv .

Nice lookin work there, Johnboy. Any intersting Fungi other than the Armilaria knockin about? .

Good idea, cheers Treeline .

Not sure but it could be Turkey-tail - Trametes versicolor also known as Many zoned polypore - Coriolus versicolor Got any shots of the underneath? .

Great service as usual, nice one Justin. .

Similar to that Dean. Comes and goes every 2-3 months, lasts for about a week. Can't believe I was lucky enough to get a weeks skiing in over xmas. Could live with it, but I really need to up my fitness this year, and feel this will keep getting in the way. Can lock up completely and makes me limp like quasimodo. Climbing and clocking up survey miles are out when it's playing up. .

I'm booked in @ 13.00, they're expecting me to be picked up around 16-17.00 Thanks for the post op info John .

Thanks fo the good will fellas @ Barnet General, Justin. Just realised it's a General anesthetic and not Local. Doh Never had one of these before, what they like then ? .

Spot on Dave http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/body_and_soul/article2792766.ece .

Having soldiered on with a nagging knee injury for a couple of years, I've bitten the bullet and after an MRI scan showed up a cyst and tear of the posterior horn of the medial miniscus (boy, thats a mouthful) I've decided that this old monkey needs it getting sorted. Going in next week for the Arhroscopy, no big shakes, but was told today that recovery time could be anything between 2-6 weeks Has anyone else had this done? I know recovery time is wholey dependant on how much jiggling about the surgeon does, plus how patient a patient I'm willing to be post op. What 'd like to know is.............is the projected time span realistic, or are the hospital just stating worst case senario? The prospect of being virtualy housebound for that long is not something I'm particularly relishing. Also, any ideas as to the best form of physical reabilitation for the knee. The muscles on me left knee are already a tad atrophied due to the other one having had to double up, taking the strain of an everso slowy expanding waisteline Well I am nearly 40 At least the SWL on Nelly is 150 kg Guess they should probably just take me round the back and shoot me really, save the NHS a load of cash and save you poor souls from having to listen to me whinging on about it Cheers Woe is Monkeyd .