Well, we have the same story! – although my tree was the one in the footway
right outside the embassy, and there were no railings between me and the
security staff – so things got slightly hairy for a while!! With the benefit
of hindsight, totally predictable..... Ah, the naivety of youth –
All best, Simon
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simon Pryce Arboriculture [mailto:simon@xxxxxxxxxxx.co.uk]
Sent: 31 March 2012 14:18
To: UK Tree Care
Subject: Re: Lesson for today
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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