Gary Prentice

Does anyone, apart from you, really give a FF about Coleen Rooney?

Who? Trump?

https://knepp.co.uk/rewildingkneppvideo/ The majority of people that disconnect probably don't or wouldn't do anything to influence change anyway, so is that actually important? The link above is from David Humpheries post this morning. I really would recommend the book I posted about this morning too. It's full of people who didn't disconnect and made real changes in America. I can't remember the name, but a seventeen year old student started a movement to plant a million trees in New York. When the US Forest Service wouldn't give him trees that they were going to destroy he contacted the media and ended up with a few thousand saplings. He got a milk company to supply free cartons to grow them on and local schools to do that and plant them. It doesn't need a majority, just a few people with the drive and initiative to make change. I'm in a positive frame of mind today

Worrying times. I don't know what is more concerning, North Korea becoming a nuclear power or the reaction of POTUS to that. Kind of hope that sanity prevails.

On the positive side, isn't recognition of the loss the first step to change?

I think that this is Cherry Gall caused by the gall wasp Cynips quercusfolii. There's a LOT of information here http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/research-curation/projects/chalcidoids/pdf_X/Willia2010.pdf on oak galls. I've consciously been in search of these, walking the dogs each evening, and it's surprising how much of a habitat that these oaks provide. I didn't expect to find the species variety or populations that I've identified on self-set trees only two or three metres in height.

Good to have you back Tony and that you're doing well

Just finished 'Urban Forests- a natural history of trees and people in the American cityscape, by Jill Jonnes. It illustrates how, and why, some of the cities were originally planted, the introduction of Japanese cherries to Washington DC, the loss of American Chestnuts and the decades of breeding to create & reintroduce a blight tolerant species. Also, the affect of DED on the American Elm, Champion Trees in the USA, plant hunting, survivor trees- 9/11 and Oklahoma, the Inception of the Davey Tree Co. How iTree began, ALB & EAB - its introduction, the costs of containment and tree loss. Really informative but readable (I read it over 2 days) with something of interest for everyone. Oh, I forgot, also the history of the discovery of the once thought extinct Dawn Redwood.

Give him some time....

Is a vehicle fitted with an aftermarket speed limiter voided for insurance purposes? I suspect if that allows wiggle room to not pay out a claim, probably. Possibly an insurance co might try to claim foul, but a good solicitor and expert witnesses would surely convince a judge that limiting the feed rate hadn't made the machine dangerous and or that it operated outside of the manufacturers design tolerances. If you're concerned inform them

Thought you always had your head up your a@&@ Sorry, you opened the door for that response

Just wow.....

I got it. I can't reply fully ATM but will shortly. Ta

What hedgecutters were they using? Stihl or Husqvarna? Seriously, that's a interesting find. Did you think about knocking and asking for a tour, or did the family just prohibit the thought?

We know where you live

Could do with him to motivate a couple of lads on a Monday morning

Who, or what, is the Knight King?

Fortunately the public face of the dept is good (the girls in the office are brilliant) and things can be sorted out by phone (I have every individual email address anyway) ive posted this on UKTC and got a very positive response, as well as agreement on the definition of 'reasonable hours'. A bit bit of research this evening then, before emailing the head of services to inform him of the error of his ways.

I've just been informed that the Head of Services of my LA has made some changes. Formally you could go to the planning office and request the TPO you were interested in. Then, more recently you could walk into the Civic Centre, and ask the receptionist for the order. Now, a duty officer, who only works two days a week has to be in the building and you have to make an appointment. I've always interpreted A copy of the order shall be made available for inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours as meaning immediately available on request. Can I ask for the collectives thoughts and experiences? From the TCPA; (3) A copy of the order shall be made available for inspection, free of charge, at all reasonable hours, at the offices of the authority by whom the order was made; and where an order is made on behalf of an authority, it shall be made available for inspection also at the offices of the authority on whose behalf it was made.

Noticed that in the last weeks lots of goat willows leaves have turned brown and dropped off. Looks to be due to rusts. Birch, poplars and sorbus showing various signs now. On the good side, very little oak mildew and less sycamore tarspot than last year.

Do tell.

Silk button spangle gall

Don't know if true or not, but I was told that ticks breathing organs were not in the head. So to cause it to relax its grip, coating the body ( used meths on the dogs dabbed on with cotton bud) to block its breathing apertures helped in removing them without leaving body parts in the victim. Apply, wait thirty seconds and grasp close to the skin. Very seldom left anything in the dogs. might be a load of cobblers but a gamekeeper told us.

Think you can get tablets for that!

Not saying that they don't, just never seen one.