The playlist in the restaurant featured Freedom by Wham and one Sheena Easton's hits
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:10 (seven months ago) link
*one of
― Nasty, Brutish & Short, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:11 (seven months ago) link
sugar walls i hope?
― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:12 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
Known colloquially as "Ozzy"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 29 September 2023 21:20 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
i think they must mean the "WOKE national trust"
― mark s, Friday, 29 September 2023 21:36 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
― StanM, Saturday, 30 September 2023 02:03 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
Victorian squirrels were demanding
― sell cigs to kids (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 30 September 2023 06:41 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven months ago) link
crisis averted!
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 08:34 (seven months ago) link
me on shrooms: pic.twitter.com/eQwMSg0CgK— Emma Szewczak (@EmmaSzewczak) September 29, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:35 (seven months ago) link
unleash the entwives!
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:37 (seven months ago) link
time to plant the only mallorn north of elfland (buckinghamshire)
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:40 (seven months ago) link
Aye it’s shocking 🌳🌳🌳 pic.twitter.com/1hEUuGg81u— CrowTours (@CrowTours88) September 29, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:42 (seven months ago) link
I've been working as a gardener since the pandemic and must've chopped down and dug up hundreds of infant sycamores in that time, feel like the lucy letby of arboriculturalists right now :(
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:46 (seven months ago) link
Apparently everything is going to be ok.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WLHSzxATbUe47s5UZdgvgyduSxsCmPSwtK2h2nrbQ8vzMukZcXtWvH2pVw7LNwPKl&id=100009038634771&sfnsn=scwspwa
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:49 (seven months ago) link
the entire country discovering in real time how plants work lol
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 10:57 (seven months ago) link
Just chanced across this extremely iconic replacement sycamore myself. This is the new best sycamore I said it. Points for working out where it is
https://i.ibb.co/xDTfVJ8/IMG-20230930-120013.jpg
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:06 (seven months ago) link
trees, it's almost like they're alive or something...
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:15 (seven months ago) link
a professional tree-man once explained to me that the mechanism by which pruning and pollarding stimulate growth is that they basically give plants a kind of super-crazed eczema in the limbs and stumps that are spared, which is why they look like this:
https://severntreemanagement.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/tree-pollarding.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:19 (seven months ago) link
tag yrself i'm ITCHY TREEBEARD
a professional tree-man
Tree Man and the Masters of the Pruniverse
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:21 (seven months ago) link
Did any newspaper use the headline, Sycanomore?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:26 (seven months ago) link
Just chanced across this extremely iconic replacement sycamore myself. This is the new best sycamore I said it. Points for working out where it is.― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:06
Can we do guess the city (or town, perhaps) for this please? I don't know where it is, but am intrigued by the blue footbridge and buildings.
― brain (krakow), Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:37 (seven months ago) link
Your clue is that you possibly ought to know where it is!
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:42 (seven months ago) link
Your other clue is that I'm currently in the UK's best building, but it certainly isn't Real England
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 11:50 (seven months ago) link
imago's current location:
https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a0154f8fd4d22e5e4f4e22/1504007511413-QAXY6F6DQ2ITMTH6Y51Z/Derelict.jpg
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:09 (seven months ago) link
that's Blobbyworld isn't it
isn't it mark
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:11 (seven months ago) link
in a sense are we not all of us dunblobbin
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:12 (seven months ago) link
a very real sense
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:18 (seven months ago) link
still the realest of englund:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/14/article-1220390-06D1E14B000005DC-416_634x361.jpg
― blazin' squab (NickB), Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:46 (seven months ago) link
this is nature as i comprehend it
― mark s, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:49 (seven months ago) link
the soiled core
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:50 (seven months ago) link
the Chronicle has a suggestions page! pic.twitter.com/k8JT4Px08S— Peter Mitchell (@pdkmitchell) September 30, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 13:06 (seven months ago) link
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/robson-green-sycamore-gap-bbc-27807145?int_source=nba
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 15:12 (seven months ago) link
Obsessed with hundreds of year events.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66950410
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 30 September 2023 15:38 (seven months ago) link