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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Steve H on September 28, 2023, 12:34:26 PM

Title: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Steve H on September 28, 2023, 12:34:26 PM: Quote
Northumberland National Park Authority said it "had reason to believe" the "iconic North East landmark" had been "deliberately felled".
Well, duh! It's obviously been chainsawed.
Very sad.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66947040
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/famous-sycamore-gap-tree-at-hadrians-wall-found-apparently-cut-down
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2023, 12:52:30 PM: What an excrescence of pus must have done that!
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2023, 03:52:26 PM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2023, 12:52:30 PM
What an excrescence of pus must have done that!
A 16 year old one...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66952980
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 28, 2023, 10:07:23 PM: Meanwhile in Nottinghamshire

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-66950604
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Steve H on September 28, 2023, 11:29:14 PM: They should put up a sign saying "More open than usual", as did the owner of a bombed-out shop during the blitz.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 29, 2023, 12:29:21 PM: The curse of the bad poetry of activism
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Steve H on September 29, 2023, 02:56:59 PM: The question of what to do with the little scrote arises, if he's convicted. Chainsaws and intimate appendages spring to mind, but seriously, a few hundred hours of "Community payback", planting trees and general environmental work, might be a good idea. At 16, he's probably not an irretrievable ne'er-do-well.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 29, 2023, 03:03:57 PM: Quote from: SteveH on September 29, 2023, 02:56:59 PM
The question of what to do with the little scrote arises, if he's convicted. Chainsaws and intimate appendages spring to mind, but seriously, a few hundred hours of "Community payback", planting trees and general environmental work, might be a good idea. At 16, he's probably not an irretrievable ne'er-do-well.
Ah a teenage ne'er-do-well

https://youtu.be/FrqioiAcyiY?si=BwdGJpJ7O4gnRbGM
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 29, 2023, 08:29:07 PM: Another arrest - this time a bloke in his 60s

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66966187
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2023, 11:47:19 AM: 'So that's two people arrested for Sycamore Gap... just one more and they'll have the tree fellers they're after'
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Aruntraveller on September 30, 2023, 11:55:57 AM: Quote from: Nearly Sane on September 30, 2023, 11:47:19 AM
'So that's two people arrested for Sycamore Gap... just one more and they'll have the tree fellers they're after'

Should I be worried that as I read, I heard it in my head in the voice of one Agnes Brown.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2023, 04:18:09 PM: 'It will survive and it will be very bushy'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66975967
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2023, 07:59:30 PM: Eejit! Well meaning but an eejit.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-66977582
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Steve H on October 01, 2023, 09:48:18 PM: A bit misguided, perhaps, but hardly an eejit. He did what I hope the NT will eventually do officially. I'm not keen on the coppicing idea - it won't look right.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on October 01, 2023, 10:03:04 PM: Quote from: SteveH on October 01, 2023, 09:48:18 PM
A bit misguided, perhaps, but hardly an eejit. He did what I hope the NT will eventually do officially. I'm not keen on the coppicing idea - it won't look right.

"It's a load of politics and legal jargon" are the words of an eejit.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Maeght on October 02, 2023, 08:49:33 AM: A bit of an eejit to think he could just go and plant a tree somewhere without permission from the land owners and to then say it is all a load of politics and legal jargon.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Steve H on October 02, 2023, 09:02:06 AM: Well, ok, a bit of an eejit - but a nice one.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Maeght on October 02, 2023, 09:03:53 AM: Quote from: SteveH on October 02, 2023, 09:02:06 AM
Well, ok, a bit of an eejit - but a nice one.

Well meaning for sure, but still a bit of an eejit to think he can do that.
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on November 16, 2023, 12:24:02 PM: 16 year old faces no further action

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-67438641
Title: Re: RIP Hexham tree.
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 30, 2024, 06:49:49 PM: Two men charged over felling of Sycamore Gap tree

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-68931202