Posted on 12/21/2009 10:28:50 AM PST by JoeProBono
“The tree is now the focal point of their village – Inkberrow, Worcs – and even attracts visitors from across the world”
Uh ... Yeah, I’ll call my travel agent ASAP.
Yeah, Merry Christmas. I still don’t get why it’s a story. My state has at least 50 million of those growing. I do understand the angle that there’s so little good news in the UK that this tree seems monumental.
That looks like an Atlas Cedar, and probably cost them plenty only to have it wiped out by the fungal disease in 1999 that the article mentioned. Either that or the Christmas tree became too invasive for it to make it.
I saw a tree once.
They planted a tree and it grew. So?
Joe ProBono, you can do better than this.
Is it just me or is their house shrinking?
Yep, I just had a couple of 50-odd-foot ones taken down because they were fixing to fall on my house.
Good thing too, we just had an incredible windstorm, followed by a Nor'easter.
Best 600 bucks that I've spent all year.
Charge admission.
I should also add that people from all over the world didn't come to look at them. :-)
Although the neighborhood kids thought that the cherry picker the tree service used was pretty cool.
Why on earth did they think it would stop at 10 feet?
I’ve got 50 footers in the backyard.
OK Joe, I get it. That’s one of those Middle earth walking trees and the Rowlands are really Hobbits, right?
But I thought they lived underground, the little people, that is. Those look like people houses.
Why on earth did they think it would stop at 10 feet?
Not so bright?
I remember one year when my kids were small and we were broke, we decorated a coat rack with handmade ornaments to look like a Christmas tree ; )
I’d say the reporter can go ahead and wrap up that Pullizter prize on this one.
I didn’t know any person born before 1984 was named Avril. Amazing.
The giant redwoods not only need a warm enviroment, they need a moist one, as in almost daily fog.
Fifty years with a TV Antenna
Very early in our marriage TheMom and I took a load of stuff to the city dump on Christmas day as to us it was just a day off work; no family or money. Someone trashed a few unsold Christmas trees and we picked the best one. We took it home and decorated it and in my memory it is one of the best we ever had.
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