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Re: Lesson for today

Subject: Re: Lesson for today
From: Simon Pryce Arboriculture
Date: Mar 31 2012 13:17:51
Bill Matthews asked me to test bore a plane tree in Kensington Palace
Gardens, so he and I and the palace grounds manager casually walked out
into the garden carrying the kit. This included a ladder, climbing kit
and a 500mm Resistograph in its case, which is about the same size as
the ones high end rifles come in. The Israeli embassy is across the
road just beyond some railings. As I started to unpack the Resistograph
by the base of the tree a lot of heavies in black gear started scurrying
round in front of the embassy talking into their collars and a few
seconds later the Met Police screeched to a halt in front of the
railings to ask us what we were up to. The palace guy calmed them down
and we were allowed to get on with the job.
I don't know how close we were to causing a dipomatic incident, but a
foreign power shooting Royal staff in the grounds of a palace from the
roof of their embassy would have been a good one. 

Simon




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