Jump to content

Log in or register to remove this advert

Yournamehere

Member
  • Posts

    900
  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    1

Recent Profile Visitors

The recent visitors block is disabled and is not being shown to other users.

Yournamehere's Achievements

  1. ... or modified pagers or, indeed, if someone misunderstood their orders, an entire Greek army!
  2. Both found guilty.
  3. Darkness Over Germany: A Warning From History [ebay link] by E Amy Buller A series of first hand accounts of life in 1930's Germany telling how The Party slowly infiltrated everyday life. The resounding message is, "by the time we realised we had to act, it was too late". In newspapers, churches and schools - especially biology and history - The Party came to dominate everything; if The Party teaching wasn't taught then teachers were dismissed; their dilemma was whether to stay and do what they could - by making The Party nonsense a boring lesson and the true lesson exciting or to refuse to teach The Party line and leave knowing that a Party member would take over and indoctrinate the children with lies. Every newspaper was required to take on a Party member who would check that everything printed was in line with Party accord: if any newspaper owner dared to print anything otherwise, or was brave enough to criticise The Party then they were closed down - or worse. Slowly, surely, they crept in. But it was already too late. Coupla quotes "By the way, I saw an English newspaper [criticising us] saying how lacking in courage we must be not to stand up to the Nazis better. [...] Tell them we know we were blind fools not to have fought earlier and before we were in chains..." [of Hitler] "It is appalling that he knows no languages and that he has no real contact with the saner and more knowledgeable older members of the Foreign Office and that he takes all his advice from such swine as von Ribbentroff and people who have no understanding at all of international affairs." "...there is no doubt that one of the reasons Hitler has got such complete control is that many people were already frightened of communism and Hitler exploited their fear very cleverly. Of course, they never guessed, for who could, that the Nazis would do the very thing they most feared in communism, namely surpress the freedom of the church. the universities and the press and by their people's courts destroy the foundations of justice and law." Many parallels with present day events: highly recommended reading.
  4. Man, he bin well tangoed!
  5. Hmmm nice thoughts. How about we combine both options and also keep it open as a tourist attraction so that everyone can go along and point and laugh?
  6. I can only imagine that anyone who might have to have anything to do with that is just crying, "Nooo, in the name of god, no please, no"... and making themselves very, very busy on other projects that they can't be spared from. It be the equivalent of Lettuce Truss announcing that she's going to send a dozen old Bristol Beaufighters to Ukraine to help the fight against Russia. It was closed for a reason!
  7. Wiki said. "Equisetum species may have been a common food for herbivorous dinosaurs... Analysis of the scratch marks on hadrosaur teeth is consistent with grazing on hard plants like horsetails." Maybe the meteor was a coincidence [citation needed]
  8. Just on a point of pedantry: he still has the title but it has been agreed that he should no longer use it.
  9. Have only checked the indexes but nothing regarding Equisetum/Mares tails in Winbolt, Wealden Glass; nor in Kenyon, The Glass Industry of the Weald. Winbolt mentions potash being produced from burnt bracken being used as a flux.
  10. Yep, cut back to your main-frame in autumn/winter keeping and tying in any new growth that you want to extend the frame. When grapes first appear on a spring whip, cut the whip back to the fruit plus one or two leaves. This means all the growth goes into the fruit and not into producing great long leafy whips.
  11. Wrong thread Gareth. I'm guessing you need to ask a friendly mod to shift for you.
  12. This was change over just the last four years too, so not comparing modern aerodynamic car design with 60's designs and golden era memories as has been claimed by some.
  13. I looked in at the BBC Live coverage of the proceedings a couple of times yesterday and yes, ev'tin TW says ^. Took their trackers er, phones, took pictures, left messages, didn't take scenic route, didn't delete the F out of everything. Right down to the meta-data for the pics giving the exact location of the tree! Seems - like the old boys who did the Hatton Garden job - they just had no idea what those little devices are capable of. I often wonder if there wasn't a cabinet/security meeting about twenty years ago; and someone said, "We are going to introduce a scheme whereby everyone will be forced to carry personal trackers and criminals will be required to film their criminal activity" And everyone just laughed. Then someone said, thoughtfully, "You know, we could make it work if we..." And the rest, as they say, is where you put your arm.
  14. Update Amazon says any plan to list import charges was never approved and it "is not going to happen"

About

Arbtalk.co.uk is a hub for the arboriculture industry in the UK.  
If you're just starting out and you need business, equipment, tech or training support you're in the right place.  If you've done it, made it, got a van load of oily t-shirts and have decided to give something back by sharing your knowledge or wisdom,  then you're welcome too.
If you would like to contribute to making this industry more effective and safe then welcome.
Just like a living tree, it'll always be a work in progress.
Please have a look around, sign up, share and contribute the best you have.

See you inside.

The Arbtalk Team

Follow us

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.