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Interesting diversion. I remember at school it being said that balsa wood was a hard wood 'cos deciduous' but it's only just occurred to me: since yew is lumped in with the coniferæ, does that make yew a softwood? Or is it a bit more complicated than that? ETA have just noticed that you OP'd with yew. Just ignore me.

Update from wiki

Myth Busted! ...and swept up and slung in the bin. Monkey Pizzle it is then. sigh OK, I suppose so <walks away, kicks stone>

Cheers mate.

Ah! Well if you put it like that, then, you're probably right.

Are we talking planks logs or standing? I love to see a douglas fir on a misty horizon: all gappy and swirly, they remind me of a dancer twirling around with scarves and skirts all swirling in the campfire smoke. Thujas I love when they are in a garden and have dropped their fronds on the lawn and I'm cutting the grass underneath, the whole garden smells of spicy oranges and lemons and mothers making marmalade in the kitchen. Hibas - dolabratas - for their smell and the scaly lizard like scales; wellingtonias for being so breath-takingly massive and their golf-ball cones; cryptomanias for being uncommon yet always recognizable; dawn-redwoods shining like fire in an autumn sunset; hemlocks for their elegance; leb cedar for their beauty and their structure; monkey puzzles for keeping me in touch with my eternal child - if your heart doesn't cry, 'dad, dad monkey puzzle tree' when you see one driving along, why bother going out?; did they used to be monkey pizzle trees? Did they get bowlderized? I like to think so*. What else? Coast redwoods for not being wellies. Theiy're all good; they're trees! [But then I like to pronounce pinus as penis ]

Looks like they got one at Knoll Gardens too; but they don't know what it is either. (scroll down, almost last pic before the comments; 2 pics; han't read the comments, might be info there). Gotta dash; grass to cut before the Rain sets in.

My guess would be Combretum laxum of the Neotropical cobretaceae. But, like I say, just a guess. HDs Y.

Happy Days!

But... but... no, no, you must be wrong, this cannot be, the forum will just collapse if trees aren't hornbeams. I'm just going to find somewhere to lie down for a little while.

Blimey mate! I was going to say that probably the only safe jewelry would be a knob ring; now I'm not so sure!

That's the one! Ta. I knew there was another reason for not wearing rings. As you say any crushing injury is going to be made so much worse by the flattened ring embedded in your finger. But... thers more! The crushed ring shuts off the circulation to the finger; the finger starts to rot; necroses sets in; you finally get the ring off, circulation is restored... and you die from toxic shock as all the shite in your finger circulates all around you. Oh what joy! Oh yeah! having a ring on your finger may also make the difference between just whipping your hand out of the way when that load comes crashing down and not.

You remember that branch the fell and hit the side of your head and bounced off your shoulder because it had nothing to get caught in and just left you with some bruising? Lets see that again but this time... with an ear-ring!!! (See also ear-rings plus high energy hard-hat displacement)

Not just necklaces but the laces in hoodies just love fast spinny-roundy things; the results of their first date can be f'kin awsome. Once they're in the wearer's face soon follows.

When I was an apprentice we were shown a safety film which showed, amongst other things, the result of combining a fast descent and a wedding ring. The chap reached the ground with a skinless finger having left a boneless finger and said wedding ring aloft.

Don't. Ever.

... and this is cheaper than that!

You're only allowed to use them on the road when you're on you're way to rip out a cash point.

The bugger dropt a ton of wood on his nut! If that's looking out for someone... He plays rough!

Yer, but what you can't see is his mate who hates him who is holding the saw and is just about to chop his bollocks off! Can you!

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a person in possession of a good collection of photographs, must be in want of a filing system. So wrote Jay Nostin and who are we to argue! Tis an oft mentioned thing regarding the modern age that although we take loads more photographs now that we don't have to 'wait for them to come back from the chemist' , we never see them cos they are only ever put on the puter and forgotten about. My rainy day projik yesty, brought on, amongst other things by its being a rainy day, was to make a start on sorting out and printing, on A4 sheets, in fours and eights as required, a sequence of pics that I have been retaking over the years of the same place to record work done and the subsequent succession of vegetation. What I mostly found was that I had totes forgot most of the pics that I had taken! They had been put on the puter to have something done with them sometime and forgotten. The main reason for this has been because even to print a contact sheet seems an affle long-winded affair involving clicking and dragging all that you want either to a projik-sheet or a spread-sheet and in the absence of a make-contact-sheet-of highlighted-items button, well, it don't get done do it? Also I'm from an age of 'don't waste paper' and ink? bit extravagant? But hey! fiver for 500 sheets in tesco and inks at tenner a set from choice stationary other suppliers are available lets go! go! go! So, in the interests of making the world an appier place, yer tis my top tip what has made my life easier and what I discovered this week-end. To make an easy-peasy-lemon- cheesy faff-free contact sheet to print off and keep as a 'material' record - so that you can put it in a folder and more easily see what you got - 1a. Open up the folder with the pics in. 1b. If only a selection wanted make a new temporary sub-folder and copy pics in (highlight all reqd and hold Ctrl whilst click-dragging to copy). Copy rather than Move cos then one click to delete sub-fo when finished with. 1c. Open new Sub-fo. 2. Bung up view-pane to Extra Large Icons to fill screen and adjust pane to give a 4x4 or 3x4 display as reqd. 3. Hit Print Screen. (Keyboard button or other) 4. Open Microsoft Paint (or other, but MSP is on yer Start menu and we're keeping it simples here) 5. In MSP hit Paste. (Saved Screen arrives). 6. Hit Select, choose 'Rectangular Section'. 7. Click and Drag Cursor-Cross to outline pics as required omitting the rest of the screen display. 8. Hit Crop. (Leaves pics only). 9. Save. Title: 'Contact Sheet 1,2,3...' as reqd. 10. Hit Print (Having gone to Downloads, My Pics as reqd if nec.) (and Border, Borderless, Fit Page, as reqd). 11. Hit Print. 12. Go to printer put paper hit printer, kick cat, push O.K... 13. Print. 14. Put new ink cartridge in. 15. Print. 16. Go to printer again, put paper back in, hit printer again, push O.K... 17. Print. 18. Put Contact Sheet in Clear Plastic Sleeve, put C.P.S. in New Folder, make lable for New Fo. put New Fo. on Shelf. 19. Make Tea. 20. Drink Tea. 21. Be Happy! Yourn.

... and the hinjlissniss of it all?

Him say " Will you put that f***ing phone down and concentrate!!!! "

So did you catch any? Hornets are cool a.f. They just sort of buzz up to you, have a look at you, sort of say, yeah, go on then, and with a derisive sniff just sort of turn and buzz of. You gotta love 'em.

Just googled it; of two possible user manual download sites one is out of action and tother needs you to sign in. No mention of costs. Your OP is number one on the search result though! Although that may well be cos of google spyware. HD Y