kevinjohnsonmbe

You’d be bang on the money - zero number of TPO apps for a fallen tree. From memory, I could dig around and find something with 5 day notice for a half failed twin stem Mont Pine which might partially meet the spec but it’s not really worth progressing. For ease, happy to agree - zero. Exactly the same as the number of meteorites I’ve seen strike the earth. That’s not to say I believe meteorites have never / will never again strike the earth. But either way, that is wholly irrelevant. I was raising the point that a ‘dead’ exemption being claimed solely on the basis that the tree was horizontal would be inherently hazardous and inappropriate but we seem to have skirted around that part. Perhaps there are no examples of TPO prosecutions for applying a ‘dead’ exemption to a fallen tree because nobody has been daft enough to do it....?

Except where they are socialist dictators..... 😂

Brilliant! Great prediction but it was the Uranus comment that cracked me up.... I really wanted to see who’s made that comment which was an absolute beauty 😂 I should have guessed - sadly a rarer contribution rate of late but with that level of quality....

There’s a lot of it about apparently.... We crashed our warship into Norway in 2001. Resulted in me spending several weeks in Tromso whilst it was repaired before limping back to UK. Watched the planes hit the twin towers sat in a swanky bar in Tromso whilst the rest of the UK military went a bit bat shit crazy.... BBC News | UK | Divers repair grounded warship NEWS.BBC.CO.UK

It’s a bit like Rhodesia.... From bread basket to basket case....

Top of the Google search K - I have better examples of my own but didn’t have time to find them.

She’s a train crash.... not that it’s particularly rare across the whole political spectrum. Barry Gardner...?

Well, potentially, it is (of a fashion) resting. At least so far as the naked eye / casual observer might discern. But then the naked eye / casual observer wouldn’t be able to discern the internal systems which are coming to terms with the drastically changed circumstances and setting in train the adaptation and survival strategies the results of which would not be visible (Poplar) for several months (possibly). I felled (Summer) ringed, stacked and (almost finished) converting a Poplar to kindling - there are 8” rings in the yard with regrowth! Granted, that regrow on the rings is completely unsustainable but we’re not talking 8” rings, we’re talking a tree in the horizontal which may / may not have all / part of the stem in ground contact and may / may not still have some root attachment / function. Can we call it a dead parrot? I think not, with what we have to go on so far. So if it’s not dead the exemption cannot apply. Granted it’s all getting a bit beyond what one might ‘hope for’ from a reasonable approach to TPO administration and likely beyond what the op can bear - but we also know reasonable comes in many different shapes and sizes...

Genuinely interested in the view here. Mindful it was reported as being a Poplar, I’m not so sure it would be safe (even with all / significant about of root plate lifted) to declare the tree dead simply on the basis that it has fallen over. Chris made the point earlier about (potential) significant denudation of ‘amenity’ (if amenity is inexorably tied to an upright tree?) and that may be an advantageous element of how the LA approach administering the existing TPO. I’m pretty sure I’d be reluctant (subject to assessing on site) to declare the tree dead simply on the basis it is horizontal.

Almost 5 years later @Mick Dempsey, and thread still won’t lay down 😂 What a cracker! All started when it kicked off in Turkey. Given the current news, things don’t seem to change a great deal with the passing of the years...

Truss on wireless earlier suggesting ‘footballers’ should be making clear and unequivocal ‘political opinion’ by boycotting some footy tournament due to be held in St Pete’s (totally awesome run ashore there BTW!) Odd, wasn’t taking the knee or school meals where the same politicians were suggesting ‘footballers’ should play football rather than get involved in politics....? it’s the selective application and apparent hypocrisy / inconsistency that strikes me.... They’re talking about RT being banned now because it’s a ‘biased’ propaganda arm of the Putin regime.... I quite like RT for the ‘alternative’ view, same Al Jazeera.

I was in Umm Qasr 2004/05. Had to go to Baghdad MNSTC-I HQ at Saddam’s Palace monthly for business. Swam in Saddam’s pool on my birthday ‘04! Quite a surreal experience going from MRE to a massive DeFac with what struck us as banqueting fit for a king. Truly bizarre and surreal days for sure.

Yeah..... You ‘could’ laugh, but it’s clown stories like that which seem to prevail in the NGO, Quango, civil service and charity sectors....

I was ‘sure’ you were going to say they cut out your defective stopcock before isolating further up system and ended up with an uncontrollable leak.... Doesn’t matter, the mental image was created and raised a smile anyway 😂😂

It seems that battery back up installed as part of the original PV fit would attract 5% VAT but when retrofitted to an existing PV array is 20% - that’s some pretty classic disjointed tax policy. 🤨 Im not naturally techy minded and it’s been 10 years since I got all excited and informed before installing the PV - I’ve had considerable skill / knowledge fade since then hence much of your post above is outside my understanding - I need to get myself back up to speed! Extract of the first quote so far attached below. Needless to say, I think this one may be missing an essential piece of kit from his toolbox... The price for 3 x 2.4 Kw Pylon Tech batteries with a Victron 5000GX charge controller would be £5439.00 Plus 20% VAT. I have attached data sheets for the products. The battery is the US2000C model.

Had the first company call back from the ones I’ve looked at for the battery storage upgrade for solar PV today. Haven’t looked at the quotes in detail yet - happy to post them up to see if anyone has any comment - but the first thing that struck me on pricing schedule was VAT @ 20%. Id have thought I’d be 5% for renewables. I haven’t checked yet but if the first one to send prospective details has got the VAT wrong I guess they’ll be going straight in the bin. Any thoughts from the massiv?

There must be / are good ‘uns Ti. I suspect you could speak with some authority on the subject. It’s the trouble with bad apples adversely affecting the whole barrel (if that’s not too many metaphors 😂)

There must be / are good ‘uns Ti. I suspect you could speak with some authority on the subject. It’s the trouble with bad apples adversely affecting the whole barrel (if that’s not too many metaphors 😂)

That’s shocking! And - the whole (charade) charity parachute jump concept is, in any case, a shallow concealment of achieving a personal ambition through the exploitation of the good nature (funds) of the ‘many’ to fund a recreational activity of the ‘one.’

I’d wager they will! Poplar - horizontal - soon to be regrowing. On the basis that the LA will probably require an app to remove so as to allow them to condition replacement. I’d wager there’ll be more to this yet and it’ll likely be either the retention of a horizontal tree or a replant condition.

That absolutely stinks but I fear it just about typifies the business of charities and is about as big a disincentive (as if I ever needed one) to body swerve the whole lot as I ever needed. Another one, which will actually see me change the TV channel, is earnest (so called) celeb’s, do gooders and virtue signallers in (what must be) staggeringly expensive TV advertising campaigns about in growing toe nails in Africa etc. That patronising t’wt Ewan McGregor springs to mind.

No, not 6 figures, but in many respects even worse since it demonstrated to you (and now to us as you retell it) that such attitudes are absolutely pernicious and endemic with reach from the very ‘top’ to the absolute roots of charitable management. 🤮

Spot on Mark.... 👍🏻 (on a lighter note - I’m voting YOU for AT agony uncle in a separate thread (so as to not detract from the important and serious nature of this thread))

That’s the recognised pathway.... Scandalous.

Don’t even get me started on H4H! Its a gravy train with biscuit wheels staffed by cliquey ex service strap hangers and free loaders.