tree-fancier123

see below - there's always work about, but it could be too physical for you, make you tired. I think you enjoy whining in internet chat rooms more than anything else, so you have no motive to get on.

doing a temporary menial job to tide you over would be too much like hard work

so two main problems are not enough work, and can't go to the pub. Shouldn't mean people are bored though. What about studying to further a skill set? Reading doesn't have to be Middlemarch, could be an electronics textbook for example. “The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.” – George Eliot, Middlemarch.

most tree work seems to be more aimed at risk removal, 'don' want my grandchildren playing under that' etc, which is fair enough. If you want to see a big tree, go to the tree museum (and stand well clear).

Your average tree contractor may not know about patterns of decay of all the different fungi, for example, some do, some don't. So trying to get free advice as part of a quote visit isn't always going to give you a definitive answer. The tree guys on here know their stuff when it comes to work positioning and machinery maintenance, but you often see contractors asking 'what fungi is this?' The best thing a tree owner can do is not let humans or valuable infrastructure near it ever, then the tree can safely manage itself until death.

Sorry I should have put it another way. I dont think maybelateron was being preachy. It seems to me he said something along the lines of 'I dont like the thought of getting questioned by HMRC and found out. His was a concern about punishment. But I tried to talk about another reason for being honest - because one day you may need expensive treatment on the NHS, so when you're on the table and your life is in their hands you can think Ive paid in as per instructions, not tried to be some flash Dan getting away with whatever I can.

He (maybelateron) is ex NHS, so I expect he has a certain moral standing on this, after all his wages came out of taxpayer money. I have commited fraud many a time and I know full well I will burn in hell.

too late in my edit - caught out and off to dunces corner

also the timing of cutting is a consideration - I would try to avoid autumn when majority of fungal decay spores are released, now would be good except as Stere mentioned there is already drought stress. Early summer if no drought or late December/ January good times.

Tree management isn't like mathematics, so yes opinions prevail, but you should see a trend emerge if say 10 consultants were asked on where to cut that lapsed pollard with a view to removing 2 and retaining 3 stems. Also I've no idea who the best consultant is thought to be. Jeremy Barrell is a famous one, but there are probably a dozen really good ones, with another 1200 people holding the level 6 qual who sort of know what they are on about

with big wounds right near the ground it could be more prone to decay getting into the 3 retained stems, the leaning one could be cut into the field a bit and still give access, for the reason of slowing/preventing infection I would suggest 10ft above ground. I'm not a consultant. If you paid the best consultant in the land for their advice you would be very upset at the loss of so much money, but your tree may end up happier.

Downing Street is tech. Soon the PM will be AI , as we are told they are less prone than humans to circuit malfunction. It will be illegal to discriminate against artificial MPs, just coz theyre not flesh and blood.

Rogozin tweeted 'we are creating AI not Terminator' yeah right

“I have exposure to the most cutting-edge AI and I think people should be really concerned about it,” “I keep sounding the alarm bell but until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal." Elon Musk

Everyone should have a place called home, even if they are criminals and tax dodgers.

I feel sorry for the people who put their life savings into moving into a place in a nice village, only to have the gypos arrive and build a camp. Happens all over the country. It's an invasion and should be repelled by the armed forces.

Gypsies use 1,000 TONNES of rubble and 12 dumper trucks to build illegal camp in just three days | Daily Mail Online WWW.DAILYMAIL.CO.UK Around 12 dumper trucks arrived on the land at Blackbrook, Staffordshire, at 3am last Saturday. Travellers built an illegal...

although I would like to think a human doctor will be checking on scans and x-rays too, just in case some damp gets in the circuit boards. This damp in the circuit boards always worries me, what about circuit malfunctions in self driving cars - maybe they will take out a row of benefit claimants on the pavement

one thing AI and robots are already beating humans is reading medical scans - an AI machine doesn't have an off day when it's mind wonders to matters outside work

an affordable rough terrain robot to trim a big hedge on sloping ground should be here within 200 years and when it's introduced it must be made to pay income tax

the story has made the New Statesman too, ah well, I'm voting MarkJ at the next election, can't wait to put my feet up on UBI

ah yeah, but in good faith is a phrase with a different meaning If something is done in good faith, it is done sincerely and honestly by the looks of Cummings blog editing antics it doesn't look like he was acting in good faith

well there's a turn up for the books - caught out by the waybackmachine, instead of just making a new post he included the material along with the one I linked to about risky virus experiments in secure bio labs. That is pretty bad imo, it may have been done innocently, as he thought it was relevant to his previous post, but it does look like Cummings was out to deceive people into thinking he was on the case before he really was. If he was trying to deceive, then all the science in the world shouldn't save him - off to a remote beach and disenfranchised is the recommended method. He certainly has left himself wide open by adding corona stuff to the biohazard post AT SUCH A TIME AS THIS APRIL. If he had just added the stuff to that post without a pandemic currently flaring up it wouldn't have mattered. The two blogs pages before and after modification in the link below, it does look bad. The haters have got him by the balls with this bit of sleuthing. Wayback Machine WEB.ARCHIVE.ORG

and use it to guide policy decisions, which is the bit I like. Of course he will get lots of things wrong, but most people, politicians included just don't spend the time trying to understand the current state of scientific knowledge. Cummings is not going to be the oracle, but he is at least having a good go.

I have to agree that Cummings has ruined the idea of people being obedient and as people have said today his actions may have put many lives in danger if it results in people copying him, finding their own ways to justify bending the rules. However, I still think he is more of an asset than a liability. The fact he wants politics to be steered by science marks him out as a visionary. Most advisors are only about business and economy. I think Cummings tries to bring a lot of different disciplines together for an interesting perspective.