Don't work for me

poprock wrote:

Managed to film a stoat on our deck, making off with a baby rabbit. At least I think it’s a stoat. Too small to be a weasel, I think?



That video works for me, does it show up for everyone else? I uploaded it to Imgur and copied their post link. It’s an MP4 pasted between img tags.

https://i.imgur.com/kprmZOr.mp4 does if I click it tho

That is a fair comment. I figure the reason rabbits are so renowned for reproduction is that things like this happen a lot.

(I also removed a very dead one from the drive this morning which looked like a fox victim.)

Aye, just the angle. No worries there, plenty of space between boards.

It ran across the deck and back twice, taking two rabbits (there’s always rabbits in the garden at this time of evening). It dropped this second one halfway, I think because Cooper gave it a fright through the glass. Eventually came back for it.

Then we spotted a smaller one, watching from under a bush. I’m thinking this was a mother teaching it’s youngster to hunt. It’d be about the right time of year.

Rabbits are a prey animal. A very successful one.

I'd back myself versus a weasel in a square go

It’s alive!



Needed a new circuit board in the base station, which Flymo sent me even though they knew I didn’t have a receipt.

It's overkill for my garden, which takes less than an hour to mow normally, but it was on clearance at B&Q so I got it a lot cheaper than RRP. I love it though, just set when to mow and leave it, nice constant length of grass all summer.

Ours is called Bladey

Funkstain wrote:

would you recommend one then? Goobs has but they seem a little pricey for small lawns...

Same question... I don't know how to look after a lawn, but I'm trying to learn.  Our new one is in a terrible state, loads of moss.  It's covered in moss killer right now, and then it'll get reseeded.  I've got a rechargeable mower and strimmer set, but I'd love one of these.

I like real grass though, and I like it when the clover comes through for the bees, and seeing birds pecking around after insects (they actually hope around after the mower because it makes it easier to find them).

We got some massive terracotta pots at our local Tesco recently for only three or four pounds each - ridiculous pricing, they’d be 10 or 20 quid at a garden centre. Might be worth looking in supermarkets over there Nina?

The right way to do it is over the next year. Not sure if you’d have that time frame.

Starting from now you would dig a circular trench around the tree - not quite as big as the crown of the tree but a good size. It wouldn’t matter if you strike through some of the smaller roots. You’d then leave the tree all through summer and early autumn and only think about moving it at the end of autumn or through winter. If you get to next spring it’s too late - you should only move large trees and shrubs in the dormant months. Once you get to removing it you’d dig under the tree from the trench you created and hope that you don’t go through too many major roots - a few will be fine. Basically for a tree that size it’s quite an undertaking for diy.

Other option would be to still dig the trench and then wait until autumn and find a tree surgeon/arborist who has a tree lifter. Basically this is a big machine that cuts into the soil and get a nice big root ball with it (and the fancier ones will mesh it up). I’d then get these tree surgeons to price in delivering the tree to you on their trailer. This would be the easiest way but I don’t know the distance between you and your sister? Maybe this makes it unlikely?

Upshot is that if it needs to come out before autumn then the chances of the tree dying are pretty high and it wouldn’t be worth the risk of hiring the van and all that digging.

Hope all that helps.

If you want the tree to have a crack at living on try taking a cutting then?

Unc would have a far better idea of getting that to work than me mind..

Just a thought.