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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
WTF is going on. Is it the heat? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/30/mucky-duck-restaurant-digger-nottinghamshire-police
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 September 2023 16:53 (seven months ago) link
we are living in a Tom Sharpe novel
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 30 September 2023 17:03 (seven months ago) link
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
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 September 2023 17:23 (seven months ago) link
ive been a week or two touring gloucestershire cornwall devon somerset ive seen some things
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 17:24 (seven months ago) link
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
― Ste, Saturday, 30 September 2023 17:53 (seven months ago) link
xp you should've said, we'd've got gimp man out to say hi
― kinder, Saturday, 30 September 2023 19:43 (seven months ago) link
oh i saw him and all the cousins and all
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Saturday, 30 September 2023 21:54 (seven months ago) link
The Mucky Duck restaurant is in Drakeholes? How does Drake feel about that?
― StanM, Sunday, 1 October 2023 05:42 (seven months ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:10 (seven months ago) link
i misread that as "boxed at the bar" for a moment which put a different spin on it
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:13 (seven months ago) link
i'm seeing scampi-in-a-basket in this memory mike
― mark s, Sunday, 1 October 2023 19:20 (seven months ago) link
imago were you in cumbernauld?
― or something, Sunday, 1 October 2023 21:53 (seven months ago) link
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.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 1 October 2023 22:09 (seven months ago) link
A cry for help?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 06:34 (seven months ago) link
cumbernauld it was, home of the new best sycamore and the soon to be former greatest town centre in these isles
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 06:42 (seven months ago) link
now back to your scheduled drakeholes daredevilry
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 06:44 (seven months ago) link
What's it ca'ed? Cumbernod.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 06:53 (seven months ago) link
They had that advert playing on a loop on a TV in the little Cumbernauld museum in that astonishing building
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 09:20 (seven months ago) link
Also in the loop was a short film about placing pineapple bombs all around Cumbernauld. Real Scotland
― imago, Monday, 2 October 2023 09:21 (seven months ago) link
I thought the same thing, it didn't look like an experienced woodman's cut
Not according to this retired lumberjack who said it was a "brilliant cut" but then he would say that as he cut the tree down.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12580169/Former-lumberjack-investigated-felling-Hadrians-Wall-sycamore.html
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:30 (seven months ago) link
"you can tell a good lumberjack by the way he cuts a tree down. I haven't seen the cut obviously, but I have seen it on the computer.'
HE ADDED HASTILY.
'My chainsaw's down here by that barn door, but you can see that it hasn't been used for ages.'
AND I HAVEN"T GOT ACCESS TO ANY OTHER ONES NEITHER
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:36 (seven months ago) link
just realised this is NOT what americans call a sycamore but a "sycamore maple", which is essentially invasive. i have one in my back garden. it drops thousands of little helicopters everywhere in the autumn, and an ungodly amount of sticky pollen in the spring. i spend the entire summer pulling out the little seedlings, which are able to grow even under tarps, with zero light. so like... i mean yes sad etc but there are BAZILLIONS of these trees in england
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:39 (seven months ago) link
Evicted by Jesuits it appears. Case closed.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:40 (seven months ago) link
(xp)
woke jesuits
― xl bully romance (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 2 October 2023 12:44 (seven months ago) link
lmao
He said it had been the “perfect night” to do it because it was a full moon. “The wind would have meant there was barely any sound,” he said.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:47 (seven months ago) link
but... I don't know why anybody thinks I, a former lumberjack who'd just been kicked off my property that day, and have clearly thought about the right conditions for chopping down this tree, would chop down this tree
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 12:49 (seven months ago) link
If I Chopped It
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 2 October 2023 13:14 (seven months ago) link
saw
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 2 October 2023 14:11 (seven months ago) link
an ungodly amount of sticky pollen in the spring
that's most likely honeydew aka aphid excretions! you can sometimes see it coming down from under sycamores like a miniature rain shower.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:12 (seven months ago) link
Sick Amor
― nickn, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:23 (seven months ago) link
i don't think so. mine produces these large yellow tufts of pollen that when they fall become little sticky balls that almost act like chewing gum. if you step on them they stick to the bottom of your shoe and are hell to get off.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:36 (seven months ago) link
but i am aware of the "honeydew" too! it gets all over the leaves of everything underneath it. delightful.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 2 October 2023 21:39 (seven months ago) link
Earlier in the summer, Widget got a load of that sticky tufts pollen stuck to the fur between his toes. It was not fun for either of us to have to remove.
― steely flan (suzy), Monday, 2 October 2023 21:48 (seven months ago) link
ah right, that stuff! anyway, til that in real england a scarf cut is known as a GOB.
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 06:46 (seven months ago) link