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13 May 2008 |

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In time I found I knew everything there is to know about all animals and fishes - and squiggly little things that you can put in a jampot and frighten old people with. I therefore determined without delay to count all the trees in the world, especially big ones. Then I thought why start with the big ones - why not the very big ones! There was no limit to by burgeoning ambitions.

By now the world was my veritable lobster!

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Blackdog from Home Sweet Home

13 May 2008, 00:08

You wear it well Chris - the tree looks pretty old too! ;o)

Chris Phillips: Thank you Mike: we're both pretty ancient

jude iron maiden

13 May 2008, 08:01

that purple sweatshirt is a colour departure for you Safari Joe !

Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple
By Jenny Joseph

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple
with a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin candles, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired
and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
and run my stick along the public railings
and make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
and pick the flowers in other people's gardens
and learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
and eat three pounds of sausages at a go
or only bread and pickles for a week
and hoard pens and pencils and beer nuts and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
and pay our rent and not swear in the street
and set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.

Chris Phillips: Good stuff Jude: I've read this somewhere before but cannot remember where

Bill Phillips from Droitwich

13 May 2008, 08:04

Right so this is ONE. On the Chadian principle we should now inch closer to this tree over a period. Thus number two should be in about mid August.

That's a great tree by the way. I was looking up old Yew trees and it seems there are quite a lot of "sacred" old Yew trees in churchyards around the country.

Chris Phillips: Indeed there are Bill, and with my pendulum I can locate their auras. Believe me: trees have auras. When they die the aura goes

chad from In front of a computer

13 May 2008, 08:07

I like Jude's piece. I have never read this before.

Chris Phillips: What a gal - eh!

Aussie from Brisbane

13 May 2008, 09:05

Thats a very big tree, I see you were doing a bit of bird watching at the same time.

Chris Phillips: Yes I was Aussie

Ginnie from Atlanta, GA, United States

13 May 2008, 09:10

Just look at how happy you are, Chris!!! The world is your veritable lobster and now the sky is your limit!

Chris Phillips: There's no stopping me Ginnie!

Richard Trim (T) from Leicester UK

13 May 2008, 09:10

Yew really have yewsed some extrordinary camera yewsage skills as yew took this. Well done to yew. richard

Chris Phillips: And I am obliged to yew too!

anniedog from Great Britain (UK)

13 May 2008, 09:55

What's this about a pendulum? You're a bit of an alternative type on the quiet. Are you into ley lines as well? BTW, I love that poem that Jude quoted - I am already well on my way and practising like mad! Love the tree - did you see its aura?
Ingrid

Chris Phillips: Oh yes Ingrid: dowsing, ley lines etc are all part of my thing. And a bit of reiki & a smidgeon of kinesiology too

vintage from Australia

13 May 2008, 10:46

Now thats a tree.after reading Judes and Richard words I am tied I need a lie down

Chris Phillips: Don't let my other correspondents disturb you Vintage! This tree really is aged 2000

aksel from .....sweden....at work

13 May 2008, 11:26

Looking forward to a lot of tree shots...I guess

Chris Phillips: Not a lot of tree shots Aksel. Do you live in Norway and work in Sweden?

Richard Standley from France

13 May 2008, 11:55

Jesus Christ, sorry I mean Chris, you look so satisfied here!

Chris Phillips: I was dazed Richard: a lump of wood had fallen on my head

Tracy from Great Britain (UK)

13 May 2008, 15:20

What a whopper Chris

That is one big tree your sitting next too

Chris Phillips: I suppose it's had rather a long time to get to this size Tracy

Astrid from vacation.....on Texel....

13 May 2008, 17:45

This is one great tree and picture, I love the way your feet don't touch the ground.....2000 years old....wow where is the next tree to visit??

Chris Phillips: I'm not sure where the next tree will be Astrid. I hope you are having a nice time in Texel - having good breakfasts and taking 20 mile runs just like Chad & I do each morning

Catalpa from Newcastle

13 May 2008, 20:43

Looks like a tree you could live inside if you had to.

The world is your oxter (an expression I first heard in Glasgow. You might have to look it up)

Chris Phillips: Mmmm: I will do just that Catalpa - I have certainly never heard that expression before!

john from Sunny Norwich, England

13 May 2008, 21:37

Treemendous image. Good luck with the tree count. If you did count them all you would need a vast amount of paper to list them all on....ironically using up more trees thus having less to count ! eh.

Chris Phillips: Heavens John: I'd best start chopping some of them down - quickly!

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Ellie from England

14 May 2008, 15:13

OK, so come on, tell me, how do they know the tree is 2000 years old? Is there a formula somewhere, they can't count the rings because the centre will likely be hollow.

We'll have to discuss the ley lines another time!

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