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nip back circa 0036; have a word with ponty pilate; tell him to let the hippy go free, you know, as its easter and stuff.

Sometimes I leave the fridge door open...just because I can. <looks at list> Fishing rods 166, fishing reels 164.:biggrin: I once counted up my books by [average number per foot] times [feet of shelf] Aroundabout 2200.:biggrin: Alone or loved up; married or single: be happy.

Hornbeam? Zoiks! Outta here...

Every lost job is another day's fishing.

Johnson and More; Collins Tree Guide and Philips have got to be tops. Mitchells Field Guide can still hold its own and should be on everyone's shelf. If you want Conifer geek heaven look out for a cheap copy of Mitchell's Conifers in the British Isles Forestry Comm Guide 33. The Hamlyn Guides are always evcellent and oft overlooked - would be my choice for a glove box book. Treat yourself to a matching set of the Trees Wild Flowers and the Birds editions, you won't regret it. Keith Rushforths Easy Tree Guide is also very good having full page pics of the mature tree as well as details of foliage etc. Going by some of their others I would imagine the Dorling K would be excellent: I can't think how I've missed that one - I'm just of to Ebay now too put that right. There is a Macdonalds guide. It is crammed with bad pics and short decriptions BUT it has a lot of forrin and unusual trees in amongst and so makes a good addition. It also attributes 'Balm of Gilliam' to Balsam Fir rather than Balsam Poplar which I've seen nowhere else! With regard to somewhere^^: No! not having books is weird [and tantamount to neglect if not cruelty if you have children]. Happy Days Yourn

"Well I can make a start this afternoon and my brother can come round to tidy up next week sor."

Open up a new jar of Nutella and fetch a spoon. You'll be fine.

Life is like a garden: there's cat sh8t and roses but mostly its grass.

check. next.

Could a vacuum give the impression of pressure? That when you take the cap off, air rushes in and fuel splurges out? A bit like blowing the dust out of a glass and getting a face-full of dust. Just a thought.

ok cheers:mind at rest now.

OK thanks for that. Tis outside my area of expertise you see, but was reasonbly sure that blue poly was frowned upon for pro use and had no idea whether it was just 'not encouraged' or whether it was because it was not safe. Er with a prussic that is

Well, climbing trees: fine. Climbing a blue poly by wrapping it round your leg and trapping it with one foot atop the other: fine. Just not sure how blue poly is with friction hitches.

Advise me. Kids playing in the woods with adult supervision using a blue polypropylene rope to climb into the trees with loops on a friction hitch. Loads of confidence; lots of fun. Is it dangerous, should I have stopped and said something? Is it no more dangerous than using a ladder and danger is outweighed by 'outside' activity? They were not going 50' up with a chainsaw, just to the lower branches to play. If prussic(?) on blue poly slips does it keep on slipping until you hit the ground or does it 're-grip' after an inch or so? Not my kids. Rope was probs 10-12mm. I think thats all. Yours Anxious.

How would it help to find him accommodation within the focal point of the village? <scratcyheadsmiley> .

A line in the article at the 'Big Boots to Fill' linky sums it up: he taught you to look at the clues in the fields and lanes and create a narrative: he changed the way you looked at the country side. I had just finished reading 'Woodlands' when news of his death came in: the last chapter is 'Advice For The Future' all the little things you've learnt and wanted to pass on before it's too late; like print out paper copies of your research cos technology is changing so fast the data will be lost on obsolete equipment in as little as ten years time let alone a hundred or the near thousand years of some manorial records. It was difficult to finish that bit. It's easy for me, I have no television nor family to distract me so I can spend long winter evenings studying. Before Woodlands I had read his 'Ancient Woodland' - the recent edition - 'Magisterial' just doesn't cover it, well , neither of them really, they are awesome books both, written by someone who knows and loves his subject inside out. The three smaller books - 'History of the Countryside', 'Trees and Woodlands in the British Landscape', and 'Hatfield, The Last Forest' are essential reading for anyone who enjoys stepping out. They are packed through and through with the information you need to know what happened to create what you see, why it is there and how it got there. And loads of 'myth-busting' to boot! The man changed my life.

Science: cos everything else is just some s88t you made up!

With both feet first... 'Weeping' Wellingtonia Sequoiadendron giganteum cv Pendula I think, in a kinda sorta maybe kinda way Otherwise Hornbeam:001_smile:

<waves back>

yer tiz [cf coniferous edjamacashun]

Same as last week's entit? Chamcyp pisifira cv plumosa. You know, the one we started by saying was C.jap, then changed our minds. Jeans? Jeansy? was OP

Matches there speling:001_smile:

She said, "So what are you going to get me this Valentines?" I said, "Drunk and naked."

Then that settles it; I was thinking it was bigger as there was no scale on the photo but for a blurred finger. OK and I just rushed in hap't to see it, said Crypto, and rushed out again. The white foliage under-leaf surface and the pungent smell you mentioned confirm it. Sawara is not Chamcyp pisi for nothing! Happy Days Call me Yourn.

You know... the more I think about it, the more I think you might be right. Come on Jeanesy, 5mm or 15mm on the leaf blade? The world needs to know.