tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009950692541010433.post7135172261422908355..comments2012-02-07T18:47:53.103ZPatrick Napiernoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009950692541010433.post-88748245646859165822008-05-19T18:29:00.000+01:002008-05-19T18:29:00.000+01:00Please note spelling errors to "Nameless Lady" comment above:<BR/>Re: 'Vociferous', 'Preference' and 'Adze. There was no excuse that I was unable to locate 'spellcheck' on my new laptop when first writing the peace (I meen 'piece') Now; though; I'm always wary of the American spelling given no matter how much one 'labors' to achieve so-called correct spelling.Obertrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03807915524509627146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009950692541010433.post-64703343736896201862008-05-18T21:25:00.000+01:002008-05-18T21:25:00.000+01:00The ‘nameless Lady’ who was so verciferous in her www.brockley.com blog against our FOBLC (Friends of Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery) management of saplings during a foblc workday one Sunday of the 17 Feb 2008 has overreacted, misjudged, misinterpreted her witnessing of a bunch of conservator enthusiasts ‘attacking her wildlife reserve of 14 years’.<BR/>Of course we knew what we were cutting out. We want to encourage and enhance the varied nature of the habitats ‘the Lady’ thought us vandalising. –<BR/>Does the lady not agree that sycamore is an undesirable invasive opportunist that within ‘her grassland’ if left to thrive would overrun the acid and amenity swarded aspect that she so eloquently described. “Yes” we must manage the grassland areas as we might do differently to ‘the woodland’. Without ready, willing and able hands by likes of a volunteer group of foblc’s giving up their Sundays, grassy knolls and florid verges would become entire subconscious forest. To maintain that prominence of openness upon which particular flora may bloom and over which butterflies amenable to knotweeds and vetches and sedums and trefoils and much besides may meander the woodsman must on a propitious day grind his axe and sharpen his scythe to chop and cut and adz and ‘swish away the woodpeckers or woodlouses eye’ which gazes ravenously on an encroaching promise of even more overcovering woodland that would inundate his brother and sister creature whose preferrence is for more open sky.<BR/>We so agree with her (the nameless lady’s) observation for Brockley and Ladywell Cemetery management. That is why sycamore and turkey oak and other woody encroachers upon wild grassy areas must be discouraged.<BR/>A pity ‘She’ did not leave a name or right of reply on her www.brockley.com.Obertrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03807915524509627146noreply@blogger.com