I'm in love, again, 70 times over !!!.

Reading the news this morning down here took me back in time etc to my man hugging tree type days/moments. When the locals went to war here to save our valley of trees from being destroyed for a freeway So to those 70 odd woman apparently from Bristol now of all places etc would you believe, who have now married a tree as a partner for life in the slim hope of somehow saving them from destruction for a benefit of a few with a own self interest factor there apparently. End of the day don't be nice there I say about what's required to be done now in fighting the good fight with your cause factor in saving your trees for the benefit of all Bristol now as you may just finish up like the locals here hopefully & those 70 odd trees may just grow into 7000 trees in time there maybe, like we have here in our valley of joy now, instead of a freeway, which was the big plan factor of the local politician types of the day if they got their way here, back when .

the wife here says she married a tree but cut him down to a stump and clipped his branches back for easy maintenance seriously though oz we get alot of that here theres always something happening with the tree hugger crew in one suburb or another ...a tenacious lot for sure and i can think of plenty worse things to protest about to be fair

We have Raincliffe Woods within walking distance, hundreds of people used to go there, numerous different trees and walks, said they were going to take out none native trees (some hundred or more years old) and replace with native ones.



Now resembles a timber yard.

Said it was none profit making, only expenses, as there is no one on our Council who I feel can count to ten those doing the felling could be on good little racket.

Do not know one contract the Council has been engaged in that has not gone way beyond the budget and some involving unbelieveable amounts.

Think from top to bottom we are ill represented by MPs and Councils.

Regards.

oldstrain wrote:

the wife here says she married a tree but cut him down to a stump and clipped his branches back for easy maintenance seriously though oz we get alot of that here theres always something happening with the tree hugger crew in one suburb or another ...a tenacious lot for sure and i can think of plenty worse things to protest about to be fair

I know that feeling here etc O/S my lovely Joyce cut me down to size here many years ago as such . Now been house hunting of late here told my other half, our mountain has finely got the better of me now I'm after 50 odd years of mountain climbing & I needed a tree change to flat ground up country somewhere here to maybe survive. Ok said she your welcome to go where ever you so choose, but I'm stopping here I'm till I die & they then carry me out in a box .
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