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My husband planted a buckthorn here years ago. Blasted thing is popping up everywhere. Think he called it "Sea Buckthorn". Mind you, the birds love it for nesting in.
 
LadyA said:
My husband planted a buckthorn here years ago. Blasted thing is popping up everywhere. Think he called it "Sea Buckthorn". Mind you, the birds love it for nesting in.
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We have a constant battle against the stuff. The pheasants love the berries and end up pooping it everywhere so it springs up all over the place here too.
 
The berries are a fantastic source of vitamin C, though the taste won't appeal to everyone. They're very popular in Russia.
 
Not very cheery - but you have to laugh, don’t you?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/19/dad-more-comebacks-than-elvis-confessions-of-a-reluctant-carer
 
Marigold said:
Not very cheery - but you have to laugh, don’t you?
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jan/19/dad-more-comebacks-than-elvis-confessions-of-a-reluctant-carer
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It's obviously written with comedy in mind and like all good comedy there's sadness there as well.
 
These aren't half as bad as the fellow doing them is making out. A good news story anyway.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-54607295
 
I thought they were fantastic. I have seen worse being sold as serious art for a fortune
 
dianefairhall said:
I loved them! He managed to get some essential "thing" out of the pets. Loved the Siamese cat! I'd pay for one! The white terrier with the crocodile toy is brilliant!
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That was my favourite, I think. I love the way he gave the dog the teeth, and the toy the dog's "smile"! :-)08
 
Hen-Gen said:
Did you read the reviews? I hope they were being satirical. Otherwise they could only be described as being terminally thick.
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I got the impression that the reviews were part of it? That he had written them himself? Admittedly, I was reading it as I was rushing out to work, so could have got that wrong!
 
Nice pic of the Chapter House tree inn Margam Park in the remains of a Cistercian Abbey. It is a fern leaf beech and is Wales tree of the year. Port Talbot by the way
 

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It's a lovely tree!. I wouldn't have pegged it as a beech from that photo, but it looked a lot more "beech like" on the other photo of it that I saw.
 
LadyA said:
Hen-Gen said:
Did you read the reviews? I hope they were being satirical. Otherwise they could only be described as being terminally thick.
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I got the impression that the reviews were part of it? That he had written them himself? Admittedly, I was reading it as I was rushing out to work, so could have got that wrong!
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I thought that too Lady A.
 
Well although it looks like a beech to me as we had one of equal magnificence close to our old house, I had to go and look up fern leaf beech as I have never heard of it, and now I am wondering if our special tree was the same variety. I should have noticed the leaf if it was I suppose, so it probably wasn't, but we usually visited it on Xmas Day or Boxing Day when it was nude, to admire the structure. It was growing in ancient woodland, off the beaten track, on the edge of a now defunct golf course.

Its a gorgeous tree, and thanks for today's new bit of info!
 
Think maybe you'd all better go and count your chicken's legs; if they only have two you now know where the others are.


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