They do it here too @B3 and it works.  For a brief period the lovely bark is on display and then they grow a whole new top to provide shade and massive leaves compared to the ones left unpruned in the countryside. Â
My grandparents had two big hornbeam trees in their front garden and my grandpa was obssessed with getting them pollarded every year. My grandma used to hate it and just wanted to leave them grow naturally but he was never one to listen to other opinions Sadly my grandma was the gardener but my grandpa thought of himself as the controlling authority of garden design. I thank her rants about his obsessive garden dictatorship for my more liberal approach to letting in the wild edges in my garden. Every time I see a pollarded tree now I smile and think of her.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
My OH tells me he was listening to the car radio a week or so back when a woman talking about the NHS information website, said that based on government statistics, the average reading age of adults in this country was EIGHT, for heavens sake! The website is actually pitched at an eleven year old reading age which means everything on it has to be in simple terms so people can understand it. I must admit I was a bit taken aback when it started mentioning 'wee' and 'poo' instead of urine and faeces.
It's a shocking indictment of our educational system.
My OH tells me he was listening to the car radio a week or so back when a woman talking about the NHS information website, said that based on government statistics, the average reading age of adults in this country was EIGHT, for heavens sake! The website is actually pitched at an eleven year old reading age which means everything on it has to be in simple terms so people can understand it. I must admit I was a bit taken aback when it started mentioning 'wee' and 'poo' instead of urine and faeces.
It's a shocking indictment of our educational system.
I went into work this morning and one of my colleagues couldn't mentally add up the cost of 3 items marked at ÂŁ1.50 each.
My mum was involved in epidemiology and especially cancer education in the 60s and 70s which led to breast screening being introduced.  She was running the Merseyside cancer education body before this and I remember her having to produce two different leaflets to explain breast self examination - one printed on cream paper with diagrams and written text - educated classes - and one one white paper with red and black cartoon images and speech bubbles for the others.  She needed it to work and that was the best approach.
Interesting that things have not improved and are, if anything, worse in places.
Our patch club treasurer is a whizz with sums and money but can't do mental arithmetic.  Needs pen and paper or a calculator. Mind you, she's French and frankly, eighty nineteen times sixty thirteen would baffle my head too. 99 x 73 is so much easier. Â
When I took my cat to the vet she asked me. Â â How is he around the downstairs partsâ? I thought it was quite sweet really and itâs referred to as downstairs parts nowđ
Its a good job we have some geniuses to make up. Â My grandsonâs up at Oxford today for some exams. Â Not bad for just 16 bless him. Â Not that his mum wants him there, sheâs frightened heâll go snobbyđ
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
 The website is actually pitched at an eleven year old reading age which means everything on it has to be in simple terms so people can understand it. I must admit I was a bit taken aback when it started mentioning 'wee' and 'poo' instead of urine and faeces.
It's a shocking indictment of our educational system.
If you consider how often the terms Wee and Poo are used by the medical profession who should know better, it's perhaps not surprising that these terms are now in such common use. Fine for infants but hardly adult language. Admittedly, faeces may not be the easiest word to spell but poo ? Pooh !!!  Â
I suspect the reason the medical profession use those terms is the blank looks they would get from so many if using 'urine' and 'faeces'. As for being asked "What are your stools like?"... Probably answered along the lines of "Hardwood with a carved top". Now that would make your eyes water.
As somebody who has to talk about bodily functions and fluids as part of my work, I find it fascinating how people use language. I have heard the most bizarre euphemisms and also the crudest terms. Itâs sometimes difficult to achieve a balance of using medical terms, to show professionalism, and a more common language, to show that you are approachable. I often opt for the double option approach, and then continue using the word or phrase that the patient uses. The Cockney rhyming slangs are always a chuckle.
This is why doctors from abroad need a glossary. I'm loath to use technical terms when visiting my GP but I have noticed that they visibly relax if I use medical terms (lite). I fear that if I used appropriate terminology, they would assume I'd been consulting Dr Google I don't think I'd use poo but maybe pee
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It's a shocking indictment of our educational system.
Interesting that things have not improved and are, if anything, worse in places.
Our patch club treasurer is a whizz with sums and money but can't do mental arithmetic.  Needs pen and paper or a calculator. Mind you, she's French and frankly, eighty nineteen times sixty thirteen would baffle my head too. 99 x 73 is so much easier. Â
Its a good job we have some geniuses to make up. Â My grandsonâs up at Oxford today for some exams. Â Not bad for just 16 bless him. Â Not that his mum wants him there, sheâs frightened heâll go snobbyđ
I suspect the reason the medical profession use those terms is the blank looks they would get from so many if using 'urine' and 'faeces'. As for being asked "What are your stools like?"... Probably answered along the lines of "Hardwood with a carved top". Now that would make your eyes water.
I'm loath to use technical terms when visiting my GP but I have noticed that they visibly relax if I use medical terms (lite). I fear that if I used appropriate terminology, they would assume I'd been consulting Dr Google
I don't think I'd use poo but maybe pee