openspaceman

I doubt I ever ran more than 3 miles (school cross country), just about managed 20 press ups but was happy climbing the gym rope over hand with no foot locking and doing a few pull ups on the door architrave. I gave up rock climbing 51 years ago and had intended to visit the great prow (climbing which I had failed) on the cuillins last week but the 7 year old twins didn't want the walk in. Yes I cannot manage a fraction of the work I used to do but stamina only went down noticeably after 60. Never had any health problems apart from accident damage till last year, so Marcus I may be being kept alive by drugs but more likely they just make me feel ill. I can however still start all my saws, though the 920 remains a pig and I have had to walk away and come back after a breather. I do have to drop start them as bending over with my heel on the back handle means I cannot deliver the impetus.

I hope you do better than my very reduced area, the dogs wrecked most of my veg patch and I've just picked ten snails off my five remaining courgette plants.

You confuse old age and death, we can't have nippers like you getting despondent and giving up.

We're certainly losing species to new diseases, a mixture of climate change and global trade but other species seem to be doing well, I hesitate to mention ivy but how about bracken, it seems to be spreading quite well into our heathlands.

I hadn't expected scots pine to be susceptible but saw lots of it on corsican ten years ago north of Penrith. Also lots of long dead lodgepole on Skye last week. We have extensive scots pine natural regeneration here in SE and no signs I have noticed yet, which area are you?

Ours doesn't warm up but red worms work their way through it and the vegetable waste from this two person household has not filled it up in 4 years yet, I just shovel out a small amount from the side door each year. I only occasionally put garden waste in it.

My granddaughters' school had a project to hatch eggs and seemed to give the day old chicks to reptile owners when they hatched

Well I was wrong for this bike. By 1975 I had reverted to a bike for commuting to work and that was a bantam D14-4 with 175cc so would have been the same tax. My earlier bikes between 1967 and 1971 were bigger so may have had higher tax.

Camelia??

Same with my vitara. no room for more than me and my kit, still have back seats, down for the dogs. Zero security as it is a convertible. Yes 200 mile range and only 30mpg

8 quid IIRC

I would expect moisture deficit to have a more overall effect, tip damage is often a mineral deficiency but overall the rest of the leaves look a healthy green so I would go on insect damage. Squeeze the dead areas to see if you can squash any leaf miners else look for sawfly larvae.

be aware the eco 1.6 diesel model 2010 has less ground clearance than others, I have one. I also inherited a 1999 vitara which I rate but only enough room for felling gear.

That's right Jack, I don't like it but that's no reason to turn down well paid work and I'll include tennis courts, swimming pools and most hard landscaping in that

I read that tyre wear produces about a third of micro plastic in our environment.

Small exit holes of some beastie, big holes woodpecker looking for them, possibly sawfly/wood wasp larvae

What worries me about all these ideas for extracting extra heat from the flue gases is, assuming a modern stove designed properly rather than just a steel box with a door and flue outlet, that either the stove is being over driven and the flue gases should not be that hot or you will cool the flue sufficiently to cause condensation which will run back down and end up as tar deposits, plus stainless steel loses its corrosion resistance in saturated acidic conditions.

Rough was it Matty? Strangely I had you down as a bloke with that beard. Good wishes for the family

I have never had the problem with a saw but hedge trimmers and chiefly the Stihl BT 45 drill. I didn't put it down to Stihl oil as opposed to other makes but the chances are our chaps were using Stihl oil as that is what I bought them, red stuff in those days. I did surmise it was down to using saws with rev limiters at high idle constantly as this causes neat mixture to pass out of the engine and the oil element to deposit on the spark arrestor. A problem easily fixed with a spanner and blow torch but at first difficult to diagnose.

Yes salt tolerant species may survive with some salt but high concentrations will kill. We see a salt tolerant plant with a small white flower growing adjacent to roads that have been salted in the winter but as summer rains wash the salt out other plants become established

cheap, available and kills plants especially in spring with a water deficit

I never have done stretches at all but then I have never been at all athletic. I notice all three dogs do when they get up so it probably pays.

Yes but some of it may have started from english not being a native language of one of the protagonists, even the british standard he posted defined kernmantel as being different from most modern arb ropes. I too will leave it at that.

Walk of shame then. Shame you lost the job but rules is rules.

I don't know if or when FC respond as I have not reported anything for over 30 years. If it were a Douglas fir I would report it on the tree alert section of FC website as a suspected P.pluvialis but I think it is a spruce, possibly brewers.