i submit....practical work most certainly is worse than survey work......
having to crouch in an over grazed field, where there are sheep ticks everwhere, trying to identify a plant that should be 20cm long, but is in fact 2cm long, with flowers that are a fraction of the size is definitely as dishaertening...and leads to....
the inevitably muddy smudge where i've rubbed my nose whilst looking through a hand lense trying to work out whether there are hairs on the stem or not. sigh. you never notice til someone looks at you funny
