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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.

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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.

Yes, and stop calling me Shirly! Re the squarrosa^; squarrosa would have a much denser foliage, both on the crown [like any other chamcyp] and on the twig. It would be much more 'heathery' in appearance. This is distinctly 'open'. Mitchell: Conifers of the B.I. has a leaf length of 15mm for C.jap but only 5mm for pisifira. Good pics of both in Johnson and More: Collins Tree Guide.

Crytomaria japonica

Looks like a palm!

Knew it was too good to be true!

Yes that's right! Because in bailing out their chums in the banking sector the tories didn't give us twenty per cent vat and they aren't keeping all the money that would normally be paid out to us as interest on our saving to themselves whilst still not seeing the immorality of bonus payments that exceed most peoples annual income continuing to be paid to the very people that caused the current crisis and penalising people for having a heart condition did they? They are constantly there at the table, opening a packet of biscuits, taking two out and keeping the rest for themselves. They then lean over and tell you that the bloke sitting next to you is trying to steal your biscuit. Clots! What labour would see - I hope- is a redistribution of the packet of biscuits! The 'ordinary people in the middle would go on just being ordinary whilst the five percent with the stupidly extravagant lifestyle would have to settle for a merely very extravagant lifestyle - and you know what? their wealth is so extreme that they wouldn't notice! that's how much money they have - they could fund the whole debt crisis between themselves and still turn a profit - that's the kind of people they are. The money 'taken would then create a more bearable life for a lot of people who are struggling to get through it for many and very varied reasons. Life is so damn short and yet some people seem to do all they can to make that short life as miserable as they can for other people who are less fortunate than themselves. There is so much wealth in this country and an ethos of greed has crept in, of snatching every little bit of mine, mine, mine and yet if everyone saw themselves as working for the good of the whole country - for the common good - the common wealth - then the only people who would really notice any difference would be the current poor whose lives would be uplifted beyond recognition. B#gg#r 'they don't deserve it, it's their own fault' they're people ffs, they're people who need help. Them up there are just creating new 'out-groups' for you to vent your spleen upon so that with the help of the Daily Mail you won't splash spleen over the suits of the people who caused the mess in the first place. Just remember 20% V.A.T. Bonuses STILL being paid. Every penny of interest on every persons savings being kept - and that is a lot of money. Sorry for length of post, sorry for derail, sorry for not mentioning same people stealing commoners rights in the 19th century. I'm just off to a happy place to think about happy things for a bit

I cut one down...and then burnt it. Can't speak for any others but that one wasn't very lucky was it?