tree-fancier123

No I cant see that 75% of Covid-19 deaths would have died this year anyway. Of couse some were seriously ill in hospital already, but surely nowhere near 75 percent. It must be like drowning in very slow motion. Wonder why the indigenous brits dont enjoy badger burger

It just seems the gear they've got now, hypersonic delivery systems that cant be shot down etc, if there are threats of a robust response to some expansionist incursion or whatever, then brinkmanship is taken to a whole new level. Without the nuclear threat I don't think NATO would have sat and watched Crimea go. Iran are probably taking advantage of the pandemic to ramp up enrichment and squirrel the goodies away.

Uk lost over 19, 000 mostly young men on the first day of the Somme. 125 000 British died at the Somme. My guess is under 6000 dead from novel corona virus this year in Uk. So worse things have happened. A new virus seems less of a worry to me than a full blown nuclear war. If China wants Taiwan and Russia wants a bigger garden too, whose to stop them?

the docs have told him he probably wasn't contagious when he last saw the Queen, wonder if PaddyPower will be doing odds on a new monarch by next month

Some grammarians label try and as incorrect when really it is just very informal and best used in conversation. Try to is standard usage and appropriate for all levels of formality in both speech and writing.

talking about tax just read this (Times), (July payment on account can be delayed if you want to) The July 2020 self-assessment tax payment deadline, which is paid by some self-assessment taxpayers who make advance payments on their bill, has been pushed back to January 2021. This means that those expected to pay some of their bill in July, will now be expected to do so in January. There will be no late payment penalties until this time and workers don’t need to do anything. for people like me who are sole traders its a bit like an interest free loan until January next year, I'll probably pay mine or I'll just gamble it away trying to buy the new low of the stock market (trying to catch a falling knife) BT yielding over 10% and office bods working from home, probably upgrading to fibre

https://www.arborventure.co.uk/ not too far from you, with a World Champ climber on the team, they can put you through your tickets and probably give pointers about who to ask for work on the south coast.

My mum has asked my sister and her children not to visit until risk of infection subsides. My mum can see her grandkids safely on Skype, and there is even a handy volume control. Its not so bad not too see family for even a year. It's best for each person to imagine they already died (of oxygen starvation etc) and that after the isolation they get the chance to be reborn. Each person a Jesus come a bit later than easter

someone in Manchester hasn't forgot it's Mother's Day tomorrow

take the top out of it - no, seriously why not consider some evergreen species too - a holm oak perhaps, red robin, there are probably better evergreens, even cherry laurel would provide a nice green screen. I suppose you need to strike a balance between screening for privacy and creating excessive shade. I worked in a similarly overlooked garden where a nice conifer had to come down that was a screen and have planted cherry laurel as a replacement. It's more of a bush than a tree, but grows quick. Nothing wrong with pruning your diciduous specimens following the excellent advice available above and cheaply in books such as RHS Pruning and Training, Ed Gillman - An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, Pruning of Trees Shrubs and Conifers -Brown, Kirkham, most of which pop up second hand on ebay (don't buy now or it may come with viable virus attached to the hard surface packaging, research not yet conclusive)

Interesting, thanks. A safer bet than Shell (which could theoretically go bust if banks stop lending) would have been say fifteen, twenty grands worth of physical crude in barrels under a tarp in the back garden. No sell by date, it keeps well from what I can gather

A bit crazy with WTI crashing to $19 friday night. Read somewhere a trading house saying oil could even go negative if storage used up. Bought some Shell B shares friday for ISA, the 14% divi obviously not safe, but surely these lows wont last as cost of production wont be met anywhere except Saudi?

have to say, this one I'm a bit suspicious, he doesn't come across like the ones I've encountered (obviously only a small sample). Comorbidity isn't usually writen with a space (co morbidity). Interested to see if he will answer my question to him, together with a detailed scientific walkthrough of his thinking

A technical question for you. As an asthmatic I'm a bit worried about getting it. In the past (as a kid) when my asthma was really bad they would put me on prednisolone - it was always a complete return to normal breathing and a few days feeling like superman. Now I know steroids are no good long term because of Cushings etc, but it occurred to me that the killing action of this virus is in part due to the cytokine storm as the immune system fires up and resultant inflammation of the airways, oxygen starvation, heart failure and gone. Now what do you think the result would be of putting a C 19 patient on say 50mg prednisolone and perhaps Omeprazole to protect the gut from the steroids? I know its a complex issue as steroids have an immunosupressive action, but surely that manifests only after prolonged use? Do you think high dose pred or other steroids could keep infected peoples airways open so they don't need to go on a ventilator?

Totally. They estimate before the pandemic 12 million people a day took an international flight. With the population approaching 8 billion still growing at estimated 1% - thats 80, 000 000 extra consumers each year. Even if this latest mutant strain SARS CoV-2 killed 50 million worlwide it wouldn't even take out 1 years growth in population size. Anyone caught more than 500 miles from where they were born - sling em in the gulag as slave labour

Everything will be fine. This isn't going to be like the siege of Stalingrad, where the surrounded german soldiers had to dig up dead horses out of the snow to eat and reportedly after horse meat was gone, the hindquarters of dead people.

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the climber is my mate who came to make the job safe after my brain fart - I had choked a line at the top and attached the branch stub via a sling and poorly tied prussik (like I said above only 2 wraps) took up the slack, lanyarded in and proceeded to cut, clipped saw and went to push piece off branch collar ready to lower myself using the prussik (instead of one of those aerial friction devices), to be clear I wasn't trying to snatch it, as the piece was below the rigging point, no slack and (I thought) it was locked solid on the prussik until I wanted to let it down, however it swung to the side and ( i think) also slipped about 18" or so down the line before gripping, by which time it had twatted my ankle, which I rested on the rung of a ladder in a carefree manner. I feel sorry for me a bit, but Sean who typed a few bits on here - Christ

I was an amateur who got what was coming to him. Trying to self lower on only a two wrap prussik(not enuf wraps for a start) feet on a ladder, the list goes on you get the picture - timber ropes agony Entenox gas - doesnt block it when they try to reset an ankle for temp plaster- squealed like a wimp - blah fucker

'A thatcher is clearly taking hazel rods on an ad hoc basis throughout Cocksedge Wood and because it is in shaded areas, the cut stump is rotting and potentially killing each coppice stool where it dies back.' I'd have been more worried about someone with a see in the dark logging horse nicking the ash

I've seen a small area with massive alders and ash, any windthrow just left leaning at all sorts of angles, not a single footpath, ivy nearly to the top of most trees, ferns and surprisingly not all that much bramble. I imagine this is what the dinosaurs knew as home, long before the mammals with opposable thumb and forefinger. We aren't the only creatures that manage woodlands - once a beaver gets to work the woodland can be considered to be under active management.

Couldn't find a photo of anyone using an extended ladder tied to a tipper with the top of the ladder unsupported in free space, but did find this excellent image originally posted here by johnp

So you're too poor to buy a MEWP, too unprofessional to hire one. What you can do if you can park under the branches and have an open top tipper back is somehow secure the base of ladder to tipper floor (working on it) then ratchet strap ladde with it leaning to top of tipper frame (or possibly top of trailer ladder rack) extend ladder full 27ft and climb ladder into thin air without it supported at top. Disaster waiting to happen, or may just help clearing out around bt lines. If no one was watching could even lanyard in at the top and use a polesaw two handed. Tree Cutters Guild Approved Contractor.