https://ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ATF_book.pdf#page=99 page 98 If a stub is to be retained, either for the reasons stated above, or when a tree is to be reduced to a monolith …, unconventional methods of cutting or fracturing (not recommended in BS 3998) may be employed, … https://ancienttreeforum.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ATF_book.pdf#page=148 page 147 Even dead standing or fallen trees are important, and so owners should be encouraged to be untidy-minded and to leave monoliths or fallen dead wood in situ.

Many inspectionists hover about homes and apartments, especially those occupied by women, trying to peer into bedrooms or bathrooms. Many so-called Peeping Toms are inspectionists.

They had no character to preserve, except for courage; and perhaps the reputation of ferocity enhanced the value of their services, in making them feared as well as hated by the people.

The police mess had formerly been a maternity home for the wives of the Sultans of the state. Faded and tatty, peeling, floorboards eaten and unpolished, its philoprogenitive glory was a memory only.