Grew up in the Fens. Likes trees, hills, etc.
Joined December 2010
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May 5
Three ponds connected by a new planting of 1,200 trees. Seemed like a good idea to me...
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Weeding and tagging down at the pasture today. First set was the "back row" of 154 mainly shrubby stuff. 103 dead, 6 nearly dead but hanging on, 7 replaced by volunteer Blackthorn growing in the tubes. Loss rate >70% even with watering.
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Working along the "high canopy" (16s) row the survival rate so far looks like Oak 10%, Hornbeam 50%, Downy Birch 0%, Field Maple 95%. Once the whole field is tagged we will have a proper count up to see what is actually left.
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Western side high canopy row 135 failed out of 256, basically all the Oak and Birch, half the Hornbeam and a few Field Maple. We planted fewer Field Maple in this field because they didn't like the wet in 2024 and a lot 'drowned'.
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Spudd Redman retweeted
Jun 15
⛔ ROAD CLOSURE
B1381 Hundred Foot Bank #Sutton #Earith.
This road is currently closed for emergency works.
More info : one.network/?GB150788654
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Jun 15
Don't you think it would have been an idea for @CambsCC to inform the local bus operators that the road was going to be shut?
@Cambs_Traffic
SERVICE T12
We have just found out (via a local fb page and the bus becoming stuck) that the road between Earith and Sutton is currently closed we are attempting to find out further details. T12 will operate Earith - Longstanton until we find out more details
Apologies !
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Jun 14
Three weeks ago these boxes would have gone in our green bin for composting, now they have to go in the black bin as waste as they can't go in either food waste or mixed recycling. That's a bit annoying.
Jun 11
First use of our food waste caddy this week - that's 2 weeks worth, there would previously have been more but some kitchen roll and manky cardboard that would previously have gone in there is now black bin waste.
Don't think we're the "target audience" for these changes.
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Jun 14
Lovely day in the woods splitting some punky wind thrown pine for this year's bonfire night.
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Jun 12
Our daughter, along with all the other GCSE Drama students at WVC, only got their final result a couple of weeks ago, 9 months late. OCR had apparently missed an entire section worth 20% from the marking and hadn't noticed.
Jun 12
English language testers fined over marking errors bbc.in/49QqmOU
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Jun 12
"Gardening", which today means brushcutting between treestrees over about half an acre, which will take a few hours.
Jun 8
Just got my "NHS health check" results back - I think me lazily describing growing trees as 'gardening' might have been misinterpreted!
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Jun 11
The flip side to this will be when the chap round the corner drops off three brace of unwanted pheasants after a local shoot and l'm trying to cram their carcasses into a relatively small tub. Previously they would have gone in a potato sack in the green bin for composting.
Jun 11
First use of our food waste caddy this week - that's 2 weeks worth, there would previously have been more but some kitchen roll and manky cardboard that would previously have gone in there is now black bin waste.
Don't think we're the "target audience" for these changes.
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Jun 11
First use of our food waste caddy this week - that's 2 weeks worth, there would previously have been more but some kitchen roll and manky cardboard that would previously have gone in there is now black bin waste.
Don't think we're the "target audience" for these changes.
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Jun 10
What a difference a couple of weeks of rain has made to the nursery bed - the Elder (which were simply sticks shoved in the ground) had sat there doing nothing all spring, have now suddenly put on loads of new growth.
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Jun 10
Meanwhile the Osier has gone a bit silly - this was 6" at the start of the year, now about 3ft.
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Jun 9
Thank god they've fixed the headline on the piece, the original "less patients" was making my teeth itch.
Jun 8
Ambulance service to take less patients to hospital bbc.in/4xeUz3V
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Jun 8
Just got my "NHS health check" results back - I think me lazily describing growing trees as 'gardening' might have been misinterpreted!
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Jun 8
The first week of June '26 turned out to be remarkably like '25 with 3/4" of rain recorded. Still way behind what we need, but makes me feel better about my decision to stop watering at the end of May.
Orange '26 actual, dk blue '25 actual, lt blue LTA.
Jun 1
Spring rainfall in Witchford from local PWS data, light blue LTA, dark blue 2025, orange 2026. We had a six week spell from late March where the total was less than 6mm.
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Jun 5
If all your heavy industry shuts down due to idiotic energy policy creating unaffordable wholesale energy costs then residence based emissions go down...
UK greenhouse gas emissions on a residence basis in 2024 were 478 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent, a measure accounting for differing warming effects of different gases. This is the lowest level since 1990, when the series began.
ALT Line chart showing the UK’s economy emissions intensity declined steadily between 1990 and 2024.
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Jun 5
I've just submitted an expression of interest in the @CambsCC woodland creation scheme: cambridgeshire.gov.uk/reside…
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