Beautiful morning to look at trees yesterday.
Posts Tagged ‘figs’
Gregson Park 10.5.2012
May 10, 2012Missing the Action 28.3.2012
March 28, 2012
Not the subject of the post: This ex-row of beautiful Hill's figs is in Mayfield - do you think there was an arborist report saying they were going to fall down?
Cr Boob Cook must be missing the last two years of frenzied emailing and media releasing and being counter-productive at attending Working Party meetings – because he’s sent me a late-night fig email. (more…)
FIG FIASCO STALLS RATE RISE
September 19, 2011FIGS TO FENCES: ANOTHER DEBATE
April 11, 2011Beware Beige
March 7, 2011
Ravenshaw Street, Newcastle is the site of a development that seems to be bigger than Ben Hur. It required the removal of at least three mature fig trees (see The Shame File) that were – you guessed it – reaching the end of their useful life span and therefore considered expendable.
I know where you can get some good mulch 17.8.2010
August 18, 2010
Council tonight voted to turn the Hill’s figs in Laman Street into mulch and have a single row of Hill’s figs down the middle of the road. (more…)
Council could vote tonight to fell the Laman Street trees 17 8 2010
August 17, 2010
Tonight 17.8.2010 at 6pm on the second floor of the Town Hall – turn left at the top of the stairs – council’s ordinary meeting starts. There seems to be a lot on the agenda and it includes the Laman Street figs. (more…)
A quick vent
July 30, 2010
Thinking about councils and risk management reminded me of this sign that I saw when we went for a walk through the rainforest at Wingham Brush. (more…)
Challenging stats
May 19, 2010
I’ve been reading the Newcastle Voice report of the Vision Thing. I’ve read the whole thing before a couple of times and I look at different things each time. (more…)
Random thoughts
May 5, 2010
This is the sight of a building that is neither new enough nor old enough to appreciate. The photo was taken in 1957. The building seriously needs the adornment of mature trees, as we have now, hiding it from view.It’s the Cultural Centre as none of us need to see it. At the charette held to ‘redesign’ Laman Street – oh, and Civic Park - the Sydney consultants were talking about replacing the Hill’s figs that currently hide this building with trees that are only two-thirds the height of the building. Yay. (more…)
