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Also correct the thread title - it is quite misleading. I thought you were considering TV advertising (Telly)! I had visions of an advert in the middle of salvage hunters for a local tree surgeon…!

I assume you mean £250 per month? If so, tread carefully, how are they going to get you leads? Or is it just prominence on the web? If the latter does this need to link to a professional looking website to work? Effective marketing can be complicated, and a lot may depend on who the local competition is. I’m not saying don’t do it but give us arbtalkers more details and you may get some useful feedback.

And is the readout correct? I had a similar situation (on my LT15 wide) to this and it was the little spring at the top of the shaft that enables a sensor to detect and measure up and down movement of the head. Was the setworks installed on the machine when you bought it?

Is it still giving the correct readout of the height? Or has it lost all concept of this?

It all looks very past it if you ask me. Will be difficult to dry and give little heat when dry. Assuming it is for firewood try to find logs felled more recently next time. They have been down and rotting for years.

Very nice. What is the timber?

At the end of the day the bricks and mortar is always going to be a better bet in the long run. Financially I mean. I don’t envy people looking to get on the property ladder these days. It’s the one thing I think is really too expensive.

I remember years ago I was working in Hayes, West London, and the markings on the road told pedestrians to “LOOK LEFT” on a two way street. Talk about worse than useless.

In case anybody is wondering....yes the Welsh for petrol is petrol. Welsh borrows lots of words.

Now that is brilliant!

You may be right, but there certainly are plenty of signs in English only.

And yet many signs are still English only. Actually the Welsh first part depends where you live. My area (Gwent) is English first. Predominantly Welsh speaking areas it is Welsh first.

Only about four years ago I received a calendar from my local saw doctor company which had a very attractive naked woman on every page. I was a little shocked as it did seem a bit of a dated concept. Do such calendars still circulate I wonder?

Well the contractors have all buggered off with their plant (for the weekend I guess). But the lights remain. The queue today eastbound was about a mile, and that was before rush hour hit. As you can see there is no work going on in the road at all - it is just convenient access for plant to get to the field next door. I don’t get how the council seem to think that allowing contractors to use a super busy road as a vehicle park is a balanced approach. I had a look at the entrance to the field where the contractors are working today. It has a really wide entrance with a good size hard track. I recon they could have hired about 100m of temporary road and done it all in the field. It might have needed stop go signs for a few minutes to reverse the low loader in each time but no more than that.

Fair point, but life isn't always plain sailing. When the country is struggling maybe now is not the time for good pay rises. At least these workers are in the fortunate position (in many cases) of having a job for life. They say there is no such thing (as a job for life) anymore, but whoever heard of a nurse or teacher being sacked? OK, I know sometimes schools make redundancies among older teachers as they are earning so much to bring in newer cheaper staff.

I can't help noticing the people who are striking in the hope of getting more pay are generally the better off in their profession. I was chatting with a teacher friend of mine who feels she has to strike due to pressure from her colleagues, and she pointed out it is the teaching assistants who could really do with a pay rise - apparently most of them are more or less on minimum wage and yet often have to stand in for a teacher for many lessons. Similar to the NHS. OK, the managers and doctors earn the most, but what about all the NAs, care workers, cleaners, catering staff - they don't get starting salary of £27K with guaranteed rises to £32K after four years and a job for life, and lots of opportunities for extra pay and career advancement. In fact, thinking about it most of the groups striking are the people in the middle, who probably can make ends meet if they budget sensibly. And as for when the union reps come on the radio and say it is not all about pay, yet seem oblivious to the fact that more pay for nurses and teachers means less budget for the rest of the NHS/education system etc. My teacher friend says she is concerned that a good pay rise threatens the provision of teaching assistants for kids with special needs in her school.

Today the lights were actually doing something. The contractors working in the adjacent field were using it to park their lorry. On the opposite side of the road is a huge lay-by. Perhaps with some joined up thinking the council could have authorised the lay-by be closed so they don’t need to park in the road with traffic lights. The lay-by is closed by the way, but empty.

And slightly further along the same stretch of road a new set of lights appeared yesterday. They are to protect a hole in the pavement it seems. I see the logic but was it really necessary?

As has already been said assuming the holly survives it could cause ongoing problems being so close to a new building. Have you thought about taking cuttings of it to grow in your garden but in a more suitable place? Alternatively, is it feasible to have a specialist actually dig up the whole rootball and relocate it? I suspect this is possible, and usually would not be considered due to cost; but as the tree clearly has a very high emotional value to you perhaps it is worth looking into? Other Arbtalk members would have a better idea than me if this is likely to be feasible.

Yeah I am confident some are oak and some ash. The logs with a rotten area around the edge only are oak. Sapwood rots quickly; heartwood very slowly. The slice just below your feet in the first batch of photos is ash, no differentiation between heartwood and sapwood. Also no medullary rays visible.

Getting confusing now. I see ash and oak. Is it possible there are two species here?

Yeah foxes are usually very adaptable and seem to thrive in all types of environment.

How odd. Do the locals know? Could it be related to naturally forming spinning ice disks that occur in certain parts?

I can’t believe they have put a hearth on top of a carpet. What a bodge.

Concrete paving slabs and I have tried bleach, which works, and pressure washing which also works. But in both instances they green up again really quickly. I appreciate your help with this.