Les Ballard

Firstly, thank you so much for the information and interest. Nevertheless, I am dumfounded! I never thought that, while blades or the top parts may be white to blend in with clouds, they are perfectly visible to aircraft but not birds. Surely there is a small surreal universe of deep poo here?

In Britain the foil tops from the kind of milk…[Read more]

Well, that’s a hard one! I guess we are talking the difference between vets and doctors here and we have to be both. The doctor can ask questions, very often, so the patient says they feel better. But you remove a thorn from a lion’s paw and you have to risk seeing if it gets more friendly!

As with most humanities things, like social work and…[Read more]

What would Kevin and the centre advertised like to sustain?

We cannot conserve all on a site as was very often. Sometimes we have to achieve and maintain a midpoint between what was and what may be. What was will, however, be possible elsewhere and the impetus is on us to recognise the different microenvironments, see where they are going and…[Read more]

It changes according to location and topography what mght be done. Folk have only to sign my fee agreement and I will sort them out.

Luv n Lite

Les

PS I don’t work for peanuts let alone free

A lot of pro folk like the tulip tree and i do too – and i am drawn to our ash – being a relative of the olive i wonder if there is oil in them there keys? It leafs last and falls green. It is the world tree (Yggdrasil) and provider of survival bows. There are stools here coppiced for 2000 years 20 feet across – but work on them stopped 200 years…[Read more]

Hi,

I’d ring the human resources section – or see the jobs ads on line – for your nearest forest / game ranger unit if I were you. A good intro is always volunteering for advertised projects though. They may snap you up for a real job.

I always feel obliged to comment about conservation and restoration as words. Sometimes we need to make a new…[Read more]

Well, bon voyage and good luck – i wish i’d had a go at that, but I will be planning a trip for the autumn.

A guy with a depression problem became a TV gardner and has recently had a stroke. By googling Monty Don, however, you will find sites about his relatively recent global trip to see the greatest gardens. (The series has been on TV.) This…[Read more]