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Friday 19 June 2020

Infected tree





Spotted during our recent walk. No mention of arboreal distancing though.   

3 comments:

Macheath said...

I love the way they've put a line of very small print at the bottom:
"What does it say? I don't have my reading glasses."
"Me neither. Hold on, let me take a closer....Aaagh!"

Sam Vega said...

One thing I did a lot of in my final years of work was to teach vocational experts how to teach, if you see what I mean. At one college in Surrey I worked with some tree surgeons and observed a few of their lessons. My main impression is of how dangerous woodland is. Everything is dying, getting fungally infected, infested with parasites, undermined by badgers, and just waiting to keel over or drop a branch on you. They had a big folder of risk assessments before they even touched a tree, or let 16 year old kids climb up one with a chainsaw.

A K Haart said...

Macheath - ha ha - good point. Nobody would ever linger there usually because it is overgrown and damp. Did they do a risk assessment on the sign causing people to linger a little longer?

Sam - once or twice we have found ourselves walking through woodland in high winds and we became very conscious of how dangerous woodland could be. The risk probably isn't that high but somehow woodland makes you aware that there is a risk.