‘sup?
This morning.
Portmarnock, north county Dublin.
Graeme Kelly writes:
Beached
whaletimber. Locals call it Plankton. Measures 2 by 4.
Tag Archives: wood
Prepping
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This afternoon.
Jamestown Business Park, Jamestown Road, Finglas, Dublin, 11.
Mick McCrory (above), owner of Finglas Fuel supplies, prepares for a rush on wood. A €200 energy rebate to every household in the country was among the Government’s cost of living package announced yesterday.
Everybody huddle.
No Govt plans for further cost of living interventions (RTE)
Treesonous
at
This afternoon.
The Coinvention Centre, Dublin
Forestry owners hold a protest outside the Convention Centre where the Dáil is sitting over a bureaucratic backlog which has rendered Ireland reduced to importing extra timber from the UK and Europe and left 6,000 forestry owners without a licence.
They literally can’t see the woods from their trees.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said:
“Farmers are being denied the right to manage their forests. They planted their land with the legitimate expectation that they would be able to thin and realise an income during its rotation, but the delays mean that this is no longer a reality for many,”
“This is jeopardising the entire industry, from nurseries to sawmilling, with hundreds of jobs already lost. The increased volume of imported timber is placing the health of the forest estate at unnecessary risk.
Not to mention the economic burden on forest owners who cannot release the equity in their forests or who are watching the value of their timber crop decrease by over €10,000/ha if they cannot get a licence to thin.”
Farmers protest over backlog of 6,000 forestry licences (Independent.ie)
Benchiatelli
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New twistage by wood-wrangling French-Argentinian designer Pablo Reinoso.
His works will be on show at Mad Paris from this month until May 2021, if you’re passing.
Previously: Back To Nature
‘sup?
Yesterday.
Drumaclarig, County Cork,
Glengarrif Woods Nature Reserve writes:
Anyone know what created these? They were foundafter a large Monterey Pine was felled. They were described by the finder as being ‘tennis-ball size, made of animal hair, hollow but with no obvious entry point‘.
Gulp.
Anyone?
Behold: the work of Israeli furniture designer Hilla Shamia.
Gnarly old hunks of trunk merged with aluminium to form unique stools and tables. The pleasingly smooth top of each piece is levelled by filling natural cavities in the wood with molten metal.
Kerry’s Eye tweetz:
At an antique shop in Tralee an old cabinet bearing a “striking resemblance” to the Virgin Mary is drawing devotees into the store, blessing themselves and rubbing holy medals against it – as the otherwise ordinary furniture piece becomes a point of pilgrimage for believers.
Meanwhile…
Duncan Willis tweetz:
My garden shed has the face of a weird space alien in the wood cladding.
It’s a place of pilgrimage for all sorts of UFO theory nutters, sci-fi geeks and weirdos in general – otherwise known as me and my mates.
😎
Avery Heart tweetz:
Knew one day I’d have a reason to photograph these two. One alien and one frightened dog? They watch my every tweet.
Neil Halpin tweetz:
Bush League…
Stone Me
at
This morning.
Broadleas Stone Circle, near Hollywood, County Wicklow.
Stephen Stewart writes:
Looks like wood splits stone?
The seemingly malleable and elastic but actually carved and polished wooden works of Bristol based sculptor Phil Young.
Mirkwood
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Wistman’s Wood – a forest of lichenated dwarf oak trees on the eastern slopes of the West Dart River in southern Devon.
Described as ‘the most haunted place on Dartmoor’ and captured above in all its mystical gloom by Neil Burnell.