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Back up to 15° on Saturday (at midnight!) but with 60mph winds and several inches of rain.

Sort of, thanks. More or less what I've read recently.

Can you give a quick summary as I can't watch videos at the moment. I was going to say my recent management has been to start this winters removal of dead or nearly dead youngish ash. Quite a few have died off this year and some have been falling over even with signs on life on them. Also had...

I looked at quite a few before buying one and then buying a house with woodland. I'd still look at local estate agents for woodland, or farms/land being sold off in lots as, sometimes a few acres of woodland turn up. I wonder with the new IHT laws if some farmers will be forced to sell off...

As it's such a settled argument I would have thought resources would be better spent trying to reduce man made climate change rather than arguing about it. Apart from all the voices saying how bad it is, not much meaningful stuff seems to be being done. Anyway, back to the OP. In a...

The list of invasives is getting quite long now. I'm still miffed that the common yellow deciduous azalea is on it. Mind you they are very easy to grow from seed so not surprising. Unfortunately down here in Devon invasives like montbretia are still dumped in the wild by organisations that...

If this isn't classed as a garden then you may not be allowed to plant just anything. I'd also repeat the warning about invasives, not just morally but also legally as the invasive list is aptly ever growing (some azaleas are on it). I'd stick to local natives. If it was here then hazel...

On the face of it I would say I can't see it encompassing any commonly used tools, but then some claimed the zombie knife ban wouldn't catch machetes but it did catch some. My main gripe is it would seem like a waste of parliamentary time, by the time the ban ninja swords surely someone will be...

I do a mix. When the bees are happily drawing comb I often just put a strip of foundation in. I've just purchased some foundationless brood frames to see how they get on. Honey is not my main aim either, so I let the bees use a good nectar flow to draw the wax.

Beeswax is very useful, as a beekeeper I've got lots to experiment with. It makes good candles, wood polish, leather proofer, bullet lube etc. I'd see if you have a local beekeeper, perhaps at a local market, and see what they have for sale. For food grade uses such as lip balm I'd want wax...

I tend to mostly use a common utility/stanley knife these days and have found some nice small stainless lockback type knives. For some uses I'd like to use stainless blades and I note a manufacturer is making them. However, I can't find any shop or online outlet selling them. Does anyone know of...

Did you read what I said or the link? Your reply does come across as very prejudice. I'm am not saying anything about the impact on game shooting. What I have clearly said is that I was only made aware of the dangers to the martens, from trapping grey squirrels and other grey squirrel control...

People can put their own prejudices on anything. Although I'm not a fan of the pine marten release I most certainly don't want to harm them. I carry out essential grey squirrel control so was rather surprised to read in my BASC magazine essential advice about not using lethal traps or drey...

Well, my googlefu seems to be working better today. Some info from Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust https://www.gloucestershirewildlifetrust.co.uk/sites/default/files/2020-03/Squirrel%20control%20and%20pine%20martens.pdf And some common sense from the GWCT...

Can you point me in the direction of where the advice is then? I've trawled through the various sites and read through bits and pieces aimed at land owners but couldn't find advice about not using traps or removing dreys. I assume I've missed it.

The opposite is happening, there's a large amount of publicity about the release but not much useful information or help to those who will be affected. I would have thought it essential to inform landowners if you expect them to severely restrict grey squirrel control, with the inevitable loss...

For me it's more of a question what is being done to help the ground nesting birds from all the extra predation? Round here the answer is nothing, as mentioned more habitat is being lost to intensive farming along with making it harder to control predators and now the reintroduction on an extra...

Well I cut downs quite a few, thinning woodland and removing ash die back at the moment. I also get quite a bit of windblow etc so have plenty of branches and large trees to clear. If someone asked for something specific and I could help I would.

This would be a rare, good use for AI, summarising an old thread into a sentence or two.

Does anyone actually know much about this pine marten release? I noticed a small piece in the latest BASC magazine about them and they mentioned you should not use instant kill traps or damage dreys if pine martens are about. Looking into this the traps sound logical but I didn't know the...