Simon Whipple, visiting with his sons and walking down to the river with Roy, found another knee high oak not far from the other one, on the south slope of the knoll with the dead tree. Seriously, we are going to need a working party for fencing before the winter.
BTW, sorry we were not able to see you when we were in Edinburgh. We all had a lovely time, and the choir got a 3 star review in The Herald. Slightly aggressive guard on train from Edinburgh today, but he got off at Leeds and then we had a nice friendly Brummie.
Temporarily it was in the way whilst we were trying to find somewhere to put it. We were half way to Berwick before we were even able to reach our seats. Easier to go up and down train without it first. HE didn't tell us where there was a larger luggage storage area at the end of the next carriage; we had to find it for ourselves. Then he blamed us for the rest of the time he was on the train for not being able to take the trolley down, even though all OUR luggage was long since out of the way.
The guard's bad day was possibly related to the crowd sitting behind me who were already on the train surrounded by empties at 10am. They got off at Newcastle.
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We have a little sprig of oak in our garden, which we assume was planted by one of the squirrels.
Oo oo; what sort of oak?
It's not very big, bur fairly standard sort of National TRust shaped leaves.
Lucky you. I still can't find any acorns on ours.
I will try and find it again and take a photo.
BTW, sorry we were not able to see you when we were in Edinburgh. We all had a lovely time, and the choir got a 3 star review in The Herald.
Slightly aggressive guard on train from Edinburgh today, but he got off at Leeds and then we had a nice friendly Brummie.
Who was he being agressive to?
Us and our luggage.
What were you and your luggage doing? Was it Pratchett-type luggage?
Our luggage just was...
Temporarily it was in the way whilst we were trying to find somewhere to put it. We were half way to Berwick before we were even able to reach our seats. Easier to go up and down train without it first. HE didn't tell us where there was a larger luggage storage area at the end of the next carriage; we had to find it for ourselves. Then he blamed us for the rest of the time he was on the train for not being able to take the trolley down, even though all OUR luggage was long since out of the way.
He was having a bad day for some completely different reason and blaming it on you.
By the way, on the subject of oaks, we are pretty sure that ours are sessile oaks (quercus petraea).
I am rather sorry that your oaks are sessile, ents in the garden would have added a certain panache
Give a prize to that lady with the dictionary.
The guard's bad day was possibly related to the crowd sitting behind me who were already on the train surrounded by empties at 10am. They got off at Newcastle.
I know what sessile means. It's the opposite of motile. Which one needs to know when doing GCSE Biology (in connection with beetles etc.)
So what does a motile oak look like, then?
Are there sessile beetles?
i think they are called scarabs
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