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Hilarious. But you never know, maybe it's exactly what someone wanted. No law against it

Thank you! I've only just read the pit-saw article and don't have anything to add really after the helpful comments already made

Very interesting, thank you!

Whereabouts in Spain was this? Reminds me of Parque Natural Saja-Besaya, where I once spent a happy week admiring the beech (amongst other things).

Nothing this year (or the last few years). My wife will be working nights over Christmas so it's a non-entity for us really. I've only got 2 days off and apart from that it's business as usual. If we were to get one it would be real - I can't stand fakery and don't see the point. Besides, who would want a lump of oil-derived plastic, made in a polluting factory, in preference to a natural product? When I was young we had a Scots pine in a pot which we used for quite a few years; it just moved outside when it wasn't Christmas. After that a trip to local forestry blocks on a Sunday morning (when everyone was talking to God) usually resulted in a decent spruce.

There's a PhD in that!

Diameter, I think, correlates positively with host selection.

My thoughts (in red). A good piece though, very helpful for those who are learning about such things.

Shamefully I have never been to Hampstead Heath. I really must fix that. I know what you mean though - I managed a site (upland spruce plantation mainly, being slowly coverted to upland oakwood, with open dwarf shrub communities and some farmland) and over the 9 years I worked there never lost interest in the changing of the seasons, the flux in vegetation cover from one year to the next and most of all, the speed at which clear-fell areas reverted to diverse layers of heather, bilberry, foxglove, heath bedstraw, cotton sedge and then oak, birch, willow, spruce, pine and larch.

Do you know the site or did I miss something in the OP?

Which elm? Wych elm produces viable seed and is less susceptible to DED as the beetles are less keen on it.

Hot off the presses - control strategy published today: http://www.defra.gov.uk/publications/files/pb13843-chalara-control-plan-121206.pdf

Tibet is in Asia... Not that the ALB lives in Tibet, but you catch my drift Studies suggest that it is freeze tolerant: http://nrs.fs.fed.us/pubs/gtr/gtr-nrs-p-36papers/48roden-p-36.pdf

I used to use a guy called Charlie Turner (I think) in the mid to late 90s. I'm pretty sure he relocated to Scotland.

Forest Research - UK Red Squirrel Group - Red squirrel facts Genetic testing shows that a Welsh enclave of reds has a unique mitochondrial haplotype, meaning that they are probably the only remnants of the original British population.

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/fr/INFD-8C8BHC Genetic testing shows that a Welsh enclave of reds has a unique mitochondrial haplotype, meaning that they are probably the only remnants of the original British population.

I used to have a Homelite - it was ancient in the mid-80s when I got hold of it. No chain brake for a start...

Lots of good stuff already, but here are a couple of extra points: 1. Set up a sensible sounding email address for job applications. [email protected] - that sort of thing. 2. Describe your previous job by means of achievements rather than tasks. 3. List key skills (bullet points only) between your personal profile and and your employment. 4. Limit the personal profile to 30-35 words, and write it in the third person - e.g. Has developed significant skills in the field of domestic landscaping. Have you got a driving licence? Make sure you mention it if you do.

WTF?? Speaking as someone who has actually studied law to degree level (and I don't just mean a law module on an arb course, I'm talking an actual qualifying law degree), there is no way you can remove your duty of care to your neighbour (neighbour in the legal sense) by granting him a license to make good the dangerous condition of your property. You cannot transfer a legal duty to another in that way. It is also perfectly reasonable to refuse to let someone onto your land to carry out work, unless life or limb is under immediate threat. Picture this scenario - you live next door to a 40 storey tower block. One day you notice a large crack in the building so you point this out to the building's owner. He responds by telling you to feel free to fix it yourself, and that by his doing this it is now your problem if the tower block falls on your house. Conversely, if you noticed the crack, rang up the owner and told him you were a builder and would fix it for him, he would be perfectly justified in telling you to do one.

Sorry, I was being gentle. You are quite right, it's as wrong as a wrong thing.

I'm not certain this is correct. Can you really absolve yourself of a duty of care by saying 'yes, I know my property presents a hazard to yours - come and sort it out yourself if you're bothered'?

I'm now the proud owner of AutoCAD 2007 - is it still available?

...which is part of informing the client. Provide all the necessary information to allow a decision to be made. If the information is along the lines of 'this tree must be felled' and their only decision is whether to take your advice or not, then so be it.

Petrol used to be a standard anti-waxing additive - up to 20% was recommended by some manufacturers. Not sure how it works with modern 'clever' engines though.

Surely it's the client's decision, and the expert's role is to provide the information necessary to ensure that it is a fully informed decision.