Real England

I thought the same thing, it didn't look like an experienced woodman's cut

sky news reports: "the tree is reportedly 300 years old and was planted between 1860 and 1890, according to the National Trust"

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/

Basically you're not going to sow an acorn if the client wants you to plant a specimen tree

Victorian squirrels were demanding

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

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

crisis averted!

me on shrooms: pic.twitter.com/eQwMSg0CgK

— Emma Szewczak (@EmmaSzewczak) September 29, 2023

unleash the entwives!

time to plant the only mallorn north of elfland (buckinghamshire)

Aye it’s shocking 🌳🌳🌳 pic.twitter.com/1hEUuGg81u

— CrowTours (@CrowTours88) September 29, 2023

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 :(

Apparently everything is going to be ok.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02WLHSzxATbUe47s5UZdgvgyduSxsCmPSwtK2h2nrbQ8vzMukZcXtWvH2pVw7LNwPKl&id=100009038634771&sfnsn=scwspwa

the entire country discovering in real time how plants work lol

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

trees, it's almost like they're alive or something...

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

tag yrself i'm ITCHY TREEBEARD

a professional tree-man

Tree Man and the Masters of the Pruniverse

Did any newspaper use the headline, Sycanomore?

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.

Your clue is that you possibly ought to know where it is!

Your other clue is that I'm currently in the UK's best building, but it certainly isn't Real England

imago's current location:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a0154f8fd4d22e5e4f4e22/1504007511413-QAXY6F6DQ2ITMTH6Y51Z/Derelict.jpg

that's Blobbyworld isn't it

isn't it mark

in a sense are we not all of us dunblobbin

a very real sense

still the realest of englund:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/14/article-1220390-06D1E14B000005DC-416_634x361.jpg

this is nature as i comprehend it

the soiled core

the Chronicle has a suggestions page! pic.twitter.com/k8JT4Px08S

— Peter Mitchell (@pdkmitchell) September 30, 2023

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/robson-green-sycamore-gap-bbc-27807145?int_source=nba

Obsessed with hundreds of year events.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66950410

WTF is going on. Is it the heat? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/30/mucky-duck-restaurant-digger-nottinghamshire-police

we are living in a Tom Sharpe novel

owners allowing listed buildings to get "accidentally" fucked up isn't a new phenomenon at all, might just be a little run of media outlets paying attention at the moment

ive been a week or two touring gloucestershire cornwall devon somerset ive seen some things

WTF is going on. Is it the heat?

https://images.amcsvod.io/b690fe0bf15607b7_thumbnail.jpg?w=400&h=225&fit=crop&crop=edges&auto=format,compress

xp you should've said, we'd've got gimp man out to say hi

oh i saw him and all the cousins and all

The Mucky Duck restaurant is in Drakeholes? How does Drake feel about that?

In my childhood, I spent many hours, over many years, in the Mucky Duck at Drakeholes, then known as the White Swan. They had a side room where children were allowed to sit, while their parents boozed at the bar. Oh the boredom.

i misread that as "boxed at the bar" for a moment which put a different spin on it

i'm seeing scampi-in-a-basket in this memory mike

imago were you in cumbernauld?

Scampi in a basket would have been beyond our wildest imaginations; Coke and crisps were the order of the day. The pub is by the Chesterfield Canal, and we had a mooring there. At Drakeholes, as a toddler, I fell in the canal in full view of a boat rally; my father jumped in to save me, and the story made the front page of the local newspaper. Happy days.

A cry for help?

cumbernauld it was, home of the new best sycamore and the soon to be former greatest town centre in these isles

now back to your scheduled drakeholes daredevilry