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Is it from the same home that had 8 Australian shepherds for sale back in November, or is this a different friend of yours with questionable involvement in dogs? Without hearing more details, my gut feeling tells me that none of you should have dogs. Try guinea pigs instead. Delicious.

Some of those big pallet crates you can cut away a few slats at the bottom and fish the logs out that way, instead of out of the top. (Edit: don't remove so much that it reduces the structural integrity to collapse though!)

Eating, drinking, and breathing microplastics every minute of the day probably isn't helping.

Why bake bread when you can buy it? Why carve your own wooden spoon when you can buy them? Why knit your own scarf when you can buy them? Why make your own barbecue out of an oil drum when you can just buy a Weber or something? Daft question.

Having your own transport will be a major factor in your favour. Get lessons now, book a test for your 17th birthday, find some cheap little banger. Try and get experience with reversing a trailer ASAP too. Hugely useful skill that will set you apart from some other candidates.

Seal skull. The similarities are remarkably few.

Looks more avian than mammalian to me. Bird skull with the beak snapped off. Could be a pelvis/pubis of a bird as well, more shots from more angles would help. Where found?

What might someone expect to pay for a 6 foot bit of yew suitable for a longbow?

Well... it worked!

That'd be an awkward time to find the rope gnomes had been up to their mischief.

Oh yeah, didn't clock the helmet at first. Proper yard sale, things going everywhere. Poor fella.

Garden seems awfully tidy for sending it towards the camera, looks like the rest of it has already gone the other way too... Definitely a frustrated shout as it starts to fall but before the real show begins, he knew something was up. Looking again, I see a saw flying down and left, and something else flying down and right... looks like a cambium saver. Not being rigged at all, and a stub on the falling piece caught behind his own rope? That'd be pretty gnarly.

Took a bit of a ride there. Can't really see what happened through all the pixels, has anyone seen a bigger version? Is it being rigged down but he bit off more than he could chew? The saw flying away is pretty dramatic too. m2-res_1920p.mp4

Try and get a side-by-side comparison picture of the tips, buds, leaves, fruit, or whatever else you can of both trees. Tricky to get an accurate ID with two vastly different stems. (Edit to add: the two trees are quite clearly growing from two different sources, they might well be the same species but it looks like two trees... unless they started growing lower down and the ground level was then built up to be in a raised bed, in which case you've got bigger problems. Doesn't look like it in the photos though.) It looks like the lights are starting to girdle the stem lower down, if left on it'll harm the tree more as time goes by, and be harder to remove when you do. What brand of power washer did he use? If it was just a crappy Lidl one you'll probably get away with it. It hasn't exactly gone right through the cambium layer. Tree will probably panic a bit, just be kind to it. Mulch the base with rotted woodchip or bark out to the dripline, feed it with seaweed or comfrey extract and a dose of activated biochar, and most importantly, find a smelly hippy to sprinkle some biodynamic horn manure tea around it. Then cross your fingers and hope for the best.

Bump This could be purely my imagination, but has anyone else seen a good bit of healthy growth on a number of ash that they thought would be on the ground by now? There's still a load of casualties around obviously, but the 95% seems pessimistic now with what I'm seeing.

That's flipping loopy.

At the risk of having the good old cuck insult thrown around again, my wife simply won't let me drive through anything deeper than a puddle. We always go around. My training has been so thorough that I even listen to her nagging when she isn't in the vehicle, because I would just hate to give her any ammunition for one of those told-you-so episodes. I seek my giddy little thrills elsewhere.

I've seen it around a bit, I did a good bit of googling the first time I saw it, and I came to the conclusion that it was the substance contained within female frogs that eventually turns into the jelly part of frogspawn (not the eggs) when deliberately laid. But when the frog gets eaten instead, it swells in the stomach of the heron/fox/cat/etc, and forces an ejection. Could be completely wrong, but it makes sense to me.

Very useful for to know, thanks Peas. Sure I'll stick them in anyway and cross my fingers, and keep my eyes out for better future berries. I don't recall seeing any near me before, ever...

Challenge accepted!

Bump I've got a little pile of mistletoe left over from Christmas, I'm going to smear it into cracks in a few of my trees. Any hot tips? I'm thinking 3 or 4 berries per crevice to mimic the application of bird faeces, would this be about right? Edit Having read through the thread I'll be posting it into hawthorn, hazel, birch, an oak, and a few of the many black poplar I have, in the name of science.

Don't know how your new years parties are going, but the Pictionary is getting pretty f*cking heated here.

You can barely tell. Blends in nicely.

We needed it because we were building a house and needed somewhere for deliveries, tools, storing furniture mid-move etc., and didn't have the time to build anything else. 4 screws in the ground one afternoon, containers delivered the next day, finished. Usable secure and dry storage space. Now that they are there, it's a lot quicker and easier to just clad them and roof them than it would be to get rid and start again from scratch. I don't see the reason for the negativity towards them. There's certainly enough containers kicking around for people to do whatever they want with them.

One advantage is that it no longer looks like a shipping container. I have 2x20ft containers with a gap between them, they were hugely useful when we were building our house, and my wife says we can only keep them if they get clad to a decent standard.