old not bold
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 17:46 (eight months ago) link
a sad reminder to tell our trees we love them while they're still alive
i know it's still alive don't @ me
― Steve Bully IX (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:01 (eight months ago) link
A candlelit vigil is being organised by local people and expected to take place at the weekend
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:03 (eight months ago) link
cue wildfire
― Steve Bully IX (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:04 (eight months ago) link
Minutes silence at EPL games this weekend or gtf
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:10 (eight months ago) link
I do actually have a longheld desire to see football pitches being rewilded, 100 young sycamore planted at each ground, think how much better the game would be with players having to jump roots and dodge trunks, not to mention having a few wild boar trotting about in the undergrowth. This is surely the moment for it, would be a lovely gesture by the EPL
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:21 (eight months ago) link
that vigil in detail:
https://media.tenor.com/J-rdbCkiZSsAAAAC/fire-burning.gif
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 18:22 (eight months ago) link
https://t.co/zumg7za2Vk pic.twitter.com/OyyLVR8kBj— Jack (@J_92__) September 28, 2023
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 29 September 2023 18:55 (eight months ago) link
captain sir syca moore
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 18:58 (eight months ago) link
Wait 'til these people find out the sycamore is a (relatively) recent immigrant.
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Friday, 29 September 2023 19:19 (eight months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/29/sycamore-gap-man-60-arrested-in-connection-with-felled-tree
Round up the usual suspects!
― fucking beanie hat music (Matt #2), Friday, 29 September 2023 19:51 (eight months ago) link
A slogan we can unite under
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 29 September 2023 20:20 (eight months ago) link
does rishi not realise what a vote winner it would be if the police could just go ahead saw this man off just above his feet without all the legal red tape nonsense?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:25 (eight months ago) link
The BBC live feed earlier today read like a brass eye episode
― Ste, Friday, 29 September 2023 20:30 (eight months ago) link
I got idea man
― Boris Yitsbin (wins), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:33 (eight months ago) link
bring back the birch?
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:36 (eight months ago) link
Real chef's kiss
The sycamore tree on Hadrian’s Wall is as close as our culture got to a sacred tree - venerated, visited, endlessly represented - anachronistic in age weaving Robin Hood and St Oswald and the frontier forts and tribes of the Roman wall - and now felled like the druids’ groves pic.twitter.com/QJ2CgNMjGK— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) September 28, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 September 2023 20:48 (eight months ago) link
https://d39eo07iavn1vt.cloudfront.net/Live/InstantPrint/Blog/Entry%20Images/CKEditorUploads/b4abd5c0-f307-4146-9278-6b044905b3bcconservative-party-blue.png
― imago, Friday, 29 September 2023 20:53 (eight months ago) link
It's not even eccentrically knotty and interesting in a way which distinguishes it from millions of other average trees. Fucking stupid cunt.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:54 (eight months ago) link
just erect a gallows in the same spot imo
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 20:55 (eight months ago) link
england getting realer
https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gA4mTCFDP3I/WKH-9eYkUfI/AAAAAAAADFw/OnIJ2oG6cDgwI08OZHea4z_8PYYm2JhAACEw/s1600/ros5.jpg
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 20:57 (eight months ago) link
there it is: https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/2012/08/24/oswestry-bus-doubles-up-as-moving-work-of-art/
exactly apparently most historians no longer believe that oswestry was the site of st oswald's death in some inter-tribal war (and resulting tree). back then it were all (battle)fields round here lad…
also wasn't it the romans that cut down the druidic groves?
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:02 (eight months ago) link
i think one can think its a shitty thing to do and agree its not as bad as boatloads of desperate people drowning and want the 16 yr old and accomplices to hang, let's get ambitious for the feelings we can feel here
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:04 (eight months ago) link
always have to check whether oswestry is in england or wales. it's to the west of wrexham fer gawd's sake
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:07 (eight months ago) link
I spent a night in a Premier Inn in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Oswestry this summer. Real England/Wales.
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
The playlist in the restaurant featured Freedom by Wham and one Sheena Easton's hits
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:10 (eight months ago) link
*one of
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:11 (eight months ago) link
sugar walls i hope?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:12 (eight months ago) link
torn here between defending my marchlands heritage and making an offa's dyke joke
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:13 (eight months ago) link
That proves nothing, Edinburgh's to the west of Bristol.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:13 (eight months ago) link
I was confused but turns out there were 2 St Oswalds and I was thinking of the other one. tbf St Oswald #2 was from Worcester which is not v far from Shropshire
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:17 (eight months ago) link
Known colloquially as "Ozzy"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:20 (eight months ago) link
imagine booking the wrong st oswald as your after-dinner speaker, how embarrassing would that be?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:22 (eight months ago) link
https://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/images/oswald_worcester.jpg http://www.pravoslavie.ru/sas/image/101836/183611.p.jpg
no, no, no, we wanted the crow guy! fucking nightmare
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:25 (eight months ago) link
the worcester guy (a saint and an archbishop, of york) is not the oswald's tree guy (a saint and a king, of northumbria) tho: the tree guy mostly made war on the welsh but then died in battle in (or possibly not in) oswestry fighting penda of mercia
as for the sycamore gap tree, it ""escaped damage on 30 May 2003 when a helicopter filming British Isles – A Natural History crashed around 30 metres (98 ft) away, narrowly avoiding presenter Alan Titchmarsh" -- truly it weaves together all our legends
sky news reports: "the tree is reportedly 300 years old and was planted between 1860 and 1890, according to the National Trust"
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:35 (eight months ago) link
i think they must mean the "WOKE national trust"
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:36 (eight months ago) link
Had to check this and yeah it's there on the pagehttps://news.sky.com/story/could-the-tree-at-sycamore-gap-be-saved-and-why-is-it-so-famous-12972287
Hoping that's not the National Trust's error
https://imageupload.io/ib/vTFjwaNL8G3tTpM_1696033577.jpg
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:30 (eight months ago) link
I'm curious about the 60 year old guy they arrested
"Gramps, okay if I take the chainsaw out tonight?"
"By all means, boy, just be careful and return it clean and refueled, have fun"
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:33 (eight months ago) link
I think you'd have to be pretty skilled with a chainsaw to have felled that tree, which is why I was kinda skeptical it was just some local tearaway.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:40 (eight months ago) link
the info is already out seemingly, a disgruntled pair- one let go from a national trust apprenticeship the other from a farm job
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:46 (eight months ago) link
xpost: from the looks of the stump seems like they just ran the cut in from opposite sides with no sign of a scarf. good way to get yourself squished.
― no lime tangier, Saturday, 30 September 2023 00:55 (eight months ago) link
I thought the same thing, it didn't look like an experienced woodman's cut
― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, 30 September 2023 01:01 (eight months ago) link
― StanM, Saturday, 30 September 2023 02:03 (eight months ago) link
Tbf it is possible that the tree was already quite old when it was planted in that spot - they were already shifting fairly large trees around in the 18th century to build landscaped gardens:
https://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/librarycollections/2016/09/08/the-eminently-capable-mr-brown-lancelot-capability-brown-and-his-magnificent-tree-moving-machine/
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 06:23 (eight months ago) link
Basically you're not going to sow an acorn if the client wants you to plant a specimen tree
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 06:34 (eight months ago) link
Victorian squirrels were demanding
― sell cigs to kids (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 30 September 2023 06:41 (eight months ago) link
they should've asked for more than just one tree then, this guy otm:
The issue is less the felled sycamore tree than the utterly sheep-wrecked landscape in which it stood. https://t.co/xFdCMWqqHX pic.twitter.com/gpo1m6e8Jr— Ben Goldsmith (@BenGoldsmith) September 29, 2023
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 06:47 (eight months ago) link
Newsflash from the youth hostel bar I'm in, where on the big screen the BBC are mad for sycamore drama: a second tree has been planted in the gap, I repeat, a second tree has been planted in the gap
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:05 (eight months ago) link
crisis averted!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:34 (eight months ago) link
me on shrooms: pic.twitter.com/eQwMSg0CgK— Emma Szewczak (@EmmaSzewczak) September 29, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:35 (eight months ago) link