- The ex-row of beautiful Hill’s figs in Mayfield – do you think there was an arborist report saying they were going to fall down?
This is a media release from Save Our Figs Inc. Thanks to John Sutton and Fee Mozeley for putting this together. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Pasha Bulker storm’
Media Release – Laman Street trees safer than other fig trees in Newcastle 20.1.2012
January 20, 2012Feeling Pollyanna-ish 20.4.2011
April 21, 2011
October 2010
Went to observe the first meeting of the Laman Street working party tonight and came away feeling mostly optimistic. What a sucker. (Hope not.) (more…)
Geography, astronomy and meteorology 12.12.2010
December 12, 2010
At the vigil last night a high school student on her way to a concert excitedly told us that her class had studied the Laman Street figs issue in geography – how’s that? (more…)
You can smell the coal dust today, not just see it 2.10.2010
October 2, 2010
Years ago I had a friend who loved gliding and he convinced me to go on a joy flight. I only went once because it was claustrophobic and nauseating but what I did learn from it, apart from the fact that you can have all that space around you and still feel penned in, is that there are Weather Things called Inversions and I assume that’s what we have today. (more…)
Where are we up to? 12.9.2010
September 12, 2010
There are so many people who are cynical about council’s approach to Laman Street, because calling the trees dangerous doesn’t ring true with their instincts or experience.
TGIF 10.9.2010
September 11, 2010
Thank someone it’s Friday. The fig trees are still standing and our lawyers keep writing to people about them. (more…)
Laman Street comes back to council again 15.8.2010
August 15, 2010
Council will be discussing the Laman Street figs yet again this Tuesday, 6th (quel eejit) 17th August at 6pm. Advisers to elected councillors have very efficiently eliminated eight of the ten tree management options they came up with a couple of weeks ago and left us with two. Thankyou for the presentation that wasted all our time in early August and which made our eyes glaze over. (more…)
Do my emails end up in the spam folder?
July 24, 2010
Today’s paper had an article about the fate of the Laman Street figs coming back to council (to which I can’t find a link at present – sorry).
Tree Removals Notified on Council’s Website
July 18, 2010
I received a call from a member of the Laman Street action group today telling me about tree removals from King Street. (more…)
The root of the problem
May 15, 2010
Call me naive but I was a touch surprised to see an image gallery on Newcastle City Council’s website called ‘Fig tree root failures’. (more…)
