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... It was probably wishful thinking, but I thought I heard a skylark from the field at the top of the road ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/07/enquiry-restarts-this-week-in-northern-ireland-st-pirans-hermit-crab-skylarks/

Old measures https://johncolby.wordpress.com/ancient-and-non-metric-measures/ Old coinage https://johncolby.wordpress.com/historic-british-coinage/

... Domestically more floor has appeared. That’s about it. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/06/infection-data-not-much-change-right-wingers-vocal/

You missed a word out at the end - that word is probably "dare".

See https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/apr/02/cups-v-grams-why-cant-american-and-british-cooks-agree-on-food-measurements

What's a newspaper? Oh, old technology ... :)

... Before the next storm arrives, some evidence of sunshine ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/05/gp-visits-decreasing-funding-cuts-for-creative-courses-sun-before-the-storm/

Now there's a thought ...

Downsizing - too much hassle - it's finding space that's the problem. I can empathise with the books. And the modelling - and the workshop - and the storage for caravan stuff. Isn;t retirement going to be fun!

... yesterday I drove round along roads I hadn’t been on for ages, or ever. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/04/covid-up-flu-down-navigating-aisle-blockages-in-sainsburys/

... More on the native trees – the fellow who’s planning them has been in touch and I’ll be sponsoring him planting a black poplar, an endangered species in Britain ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/03/rainfall-wettest-eighteen-months-ever-sponsoring-a-native-tree/

The problem with the English elm, Ulmus procera, which was a characteristic tree of hedgerows in England until it was decimated by Dutch Elm Disease (DED) in the 1970s. English elm is a single clone so all English elms are genetically identical. This elm doesn't produce viable seed so it was propagated from suckers. https://www.avelandtrees.co.uk/post/planting-elms-in-the-british-countryside#:~:text=The English elm%2C Ulmus procera,it was propagated from suckers.

The definition and list of native trees: a species that colonised these islands during the retreat of ice at the end of the last ice age a species that was present in these islands when the English Channel was created and the land bridge between Britain and continental Europe was flooded a species that has colonised without human assistance; in some cases this is uncertain. Alder (Alnus glutinosa) Crab Apple (Malus sylvestris) Common Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) European Beech (Fagus sylvatica) Silver Birch (Betula pendula) Downy Birch (Betula pubescens) Box (Buxus sempervirens) Wild Cherry (Prunus avium) Bird Cherry (Prunus padus) Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) Wych Elm (Ulmus glabra) Field Elm (Ulmus minor; extremely variable aggregate with many varieties) Common Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) Midland Hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata; southern Great Britain only) Crataegus × media - occurs as a natural hybrid wherever monogyna and laevigata overlap. Common Hazel (Corylus avellana) European Holly (Ilex aquifolium) European Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus; southern Great Britain only) Common Juniper (Juniperus communis) Small-leaved Linden/Lime (Tilia cordata) Large-leaved Linden/Lime (Tilia platyphyllos; southern Great Britain only) Field Maple (Acer campestre) Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) Sessile Oak (Quercus petraea) Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) Aspen (Populus tremula) Black Poplar (Populus nigra; southern Great Britain only) European Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) Common Whitebeam (Sorbus aria) and several related apomictic microspecies Service Tree (Sorbus domestica; recently discovered growing wild on a cliff in south Wales) Wild Service Tree (Sorbus torminalis) Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo; Ireland only) Willows (Salix spp.; several species) Bay Willow (Salix pentandra) Grey Willow (Salix cinerea) Goat Willow (Salix caprea) Purple Willow (Salix purpurea) European Yew (Taxus baccata) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_trees_of_Great_Britain_and_Ireland

... assorted piles are becoming more organised so that I may be able to find things more easily. It’s taken quite a long time to get to this stage, but there is method and, albeit rather slow, progress ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/02/no-new-covid-stats-still-domestically-micro-sorting-native-trees/

... April Fools include a twenty foot high straw squirrel for a local craft business ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/covid-by-age-and-region-domestically-micro-sorting-the-good-april-fools/

... Another day of finding non-existent or elusive space. And then covering it up again. Must really get on. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/31/data-updates-going-monthly-changing-the-clocks-and-featuring-pickles/

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It's from this respected journal that I get an example I use when teaching people how to structure a paper which has all the correct elements therein - this the example https://www.bmj.com/content/331/7531/1498

Occasionally the page takes longer, and I saw "the message" once, but then it loaded. MacBook and Safari. Other pages are sometimes slow, anyway.

... They loved the mud, less so the post walk bath. ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/30/acute-respiratory-infections-ari-visit-to-poppy-the-puppy/

... car yesterday showed an unusual fault – no fuel – odd since I’d filled it up ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/29/covid-variants-unusual-car-fault/

... I am impressed by both the scholarship and by someone getting things done so that history is not lost ... https://johncolby.wordpress.com/2024/03/28/covid-and-influenza-down-who-to-trust-local-history-made-public-and-it-works/

I watched that when originally broadcast. I'm officially old.