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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    seanoconn said:

    Live oak

    You're cleverer than you look!
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,782
    Live oak
    masjer said:

    It's a Holm Oak aka Evergreen Oak.

    It’s!? Said with such confidence.

    Anyway, balls, live oak.
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,801
    Live Oak =Evergreen Oak=Holm Oak=Quercus Ilex (the British one).
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,782
    Exactly, live oak 👍
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,801
    It was my competition, since you were rude, you scored -5 points. You lost.
  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,782
    Seano -5 masjer 0

    Feels like a win 😎
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    masjer said:

    It's a Holm Oak aka Evergreen Oak.


    Sounds right. It's a mighty tree...


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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,801
    It'll certainly get plenty of water there. It's a very heavy/dense wood.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    Climate up here doesn't allow for Live Holm oaks, though my Quercus robur planted in '85 is doing rather well.
    I have even grown an acorn from it and donated the sapling.
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  • Wheelspinner
    Wheelspinner Posts: 6,720
    << Has planted an oak in our paddock. Dunno variety - “red” I think. Doing ok, given it’s in sandy soil.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    Got to be one of my favourite trees the mighty Oak. I do like Elm but they are pretty rare. There's 1 doing very well in the local town, probably because it's pretty isolated.
    I loved the big Copper beech trees back in 'Naam.
    We had a Maple (Acer palmatum purpureum). It was doing well in the conservatory. Got far too big, shifted into the lee of the Northerly's behind the garage. Did fine for 2 seasons until a frost in late April. Didn't survive.
    I am nursing one poor, dishevelled Lidl one bought for £4.99 in the hope that when I put it out, it will survive. I have the location marked out in a shady area with lots of shelter.

    Some Hawthorne variety locally has a red flower. If I could just find some saplings to go in the hedge...

    Soz. Got carried away.

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  • Charlie_Croker
    Charlie_Croker Posts: 1,727
    briantrumpet said:

    Le selfie du jour... the causeway I'm standing on is my Concretehenge: when the sunset is directly at its end, it's either the start of winter (roughly 1 Nov), or spring is on the way (at least in my mind... roughly now).

    Spring's on the way.

    image




    If it wasn’t for the telephone box, I might have thought this was in Denmark. Nice photo
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    Charlie_Croker said:

    briantrumpet said:

    Le selfie du jour... the causeway I'm standing on is my Concretehenge: when the sunset is directly at its end, it's either the start of winter (roughly 1 Nov), or spring is on the way (at least in my mind... roughly now).

    Spring's on the way.

    image




    If it wasn’t for the telephone box, I might have thought this was in Denmark. Nice photo

    Thanks CC. Further along there are several houses which are often called 'Dutch' (making use of the attics), but which, I am assured by a knowledgeable architectural historian, are thoroughly 17th-century English design.
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,801
    Feeling fruity.
    IMG_0212
    IMG_0189
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    masjer said:

    Feeling fruity.
    IMG_0189


    That's a peach!
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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,801
    Cheers Brian, housebound with this beautiful weather, so I tried to get creative with my front bike light.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Not my own photography, but I made a collage from photography in Rouleur. Have printed and will frame for the wall in our bike room…


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  • masjer
    masjer Posts: 2,801
    ^^ Nice, that'll look great framed.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    masjer said:

    ^^ Nice, that'll look great framed.

    It does! Partly obscured, but also taking care of some other prints we have…



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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    Ben6899 said:

    Not my own photography, but I made a collage from photography in Rouleur. Have printed and will frame for the wall in our bike room…


    That's glass table material.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,782
    pinno said:

    Ben6899 said:

    Not my own photography, but I made a collage from photography in Rouleur. Have printed and will frame for the wall in our bike room…


    That's glass table material.
    Yes but does Ben have kids? Going to have kids soon? You can’t have anything nice or is easy to break in the house until the kids have grown up/f.ucked off.
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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    No kids, none planned. They smell and keep weird hours.
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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Past the age of 3, they don't actually smell.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 22,079
    Smell is an unusual complaint about kids.
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I mean it was tongue in cheek, but you know.
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  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,925
    TheBigBean said:

    Smell is an unusual complaint about kids.


    Try gong into a classroom of 30 of them at the end of an afternoon.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,614
    seanoconn said:

    ou can’t have anything nice or is easy to break in the house until the kids have grown up/f.ucked off.

    True dat.
    We had a glass covered coffee table and when Tricky was just old enough to use legs (chairs, tables, ours) and the sofa to stand upright, she decided to tap her wooden rattle on it...
    Then she got a bit too enthusiastic and before I had a chance to stop her @$£%&amp;CRASH?:@{_) went the glass.
    We elected to not replace the glass until... well, number 2 came along and then another wait and then we eventually donated the table sans glass.

    They don't 'smell'.
    Although the sardine and mash (on the exit) incident was rather ripe.


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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    I know they don't smell.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,782
    Ben6899 said:

    I know they don't smell.

    Ben, they don’t smell. Can you just stop.
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  • pblakeney
    pblakeney Posts: 27,591
    Ben6899 said:

    I know they don't smell.

    That's only because their noses aren't fully developed. 😉
    The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
    I am not sure. You have no chance.
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