A Conversation for Picking People up using Trees
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Olaf the, er, Hesitant Started conversation Aug 23, 1999
I spent an hour hugging a large willow a mile from my house, telling it all my innermost secrets, and I found we got on as well as a man and a tree could expect on a first date. I went to the shop to buy some moisturising cream (that bark is so rough against my stubble) and now I discover it's run away with a Scots Pine and my heart is broken. That's the last time I take advice from you, Goblin.
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Uncle Ugly 52409 Posted Aug 23, 1999
am I to literal minded ?
when I saw the entry I assumed it meant picking people up with trees,
not (obviously) picking people up with trees, forget it I'm obviously too old to live live life at this pace.
I will just go and sit quietly in the corner with my pet camel ( Humphrey) and watch.
I like watching !
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Olaf the, er, Hesitant Posted Aug 24, 1999
It was clearly about picking people up with trees, not picking people UP with trees.
In any event, I hadn't expected to fall in love with a tree. These things just happen. SOB!
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John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted Aug 25, 1999
Have you read "A Melon for ecstasy"? It's a novel about a young man, his brace-and-bit, and his affection for trees. Can't remeber the author's name.
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Olaf the, er, Hesitant Posted Aug 28, 1999
JTG, your breadth of reading is breathtaking! Naive question, possibly, but what were the brace and bit for?
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Uncle Ugly 52409 Posted Sep 2, 1999
You two are obviously more demented than I .
I prefer sitting in trees, but the tips on up picking are appreciated.
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John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted Sep 4, 1999
I do my gardening (most of it) for the great unwashed masses in municipal parks. Most of what I do is with flowering shrubs. I plant a lot of annual flower beds (about 15,000 plants... too many). But what I am having the most fun with, at the present is more naturalistic displays using direct sown wild-flowers, tall prairie grasses and Buddleia.
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Uncle Ugly 52409 Posted Sep 4, 1999
Buddelia, the butterfly bush bush, one of my favourites, but I'm a lazy gardener and prefer shrubs and edibles.
Have you been to CAT ?
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John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted Sep 4, 1999
Edibles can be pretty demanding; especially if you're keen on reserving the eating to yourself.
I am very partial to Butterfly Bush, too. It puts on a fantastic show at this time of year. It attracts Monarch butterflies by the hundreds; which in turn gives a garden an added dimension. And it's easy - and cheap -to grow in large quantities.
I don't think I've been to CAT. I don't know what that is, to be honest.
JTG
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Uncle Ugly 52409 Posted Sep 8, 1999
CAT is the centre for alternative technology at Machylynnyeth (don't know if thats spelt right )in Wales. It's a pretty cool place to visit and has a fair bit of organic garden, with other stuff like composting toilets, different types and styles of compost bin and wind and solar power etc. Possibly the best thing is the pool with fish in it that is at the end of the reed bed sewage system,, or it might be the water powered railway, you get the idea.
u can nener be to CAT!
The Cat Posted May 21, 2000
U r all as demented as eachother, almost stooping to my levels of mental derangity.the best way to pick people up using trees is to curl up in one of the braches where everyone can see you, boring people will ignore u ,but interesting ones will talk to or join you, and doing it in a tree is alot of fun!
u can nener be to CAT!
Dingleberry Posted May 21, 2000
Well, I've been trying this for several weeks now, and all I've got to show for it is a streaming cold and quizzical looks from my wife.
Meet a good tree and forget aboout people
John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" Posted May 21, 2000
Have you read about Julia 'Butterfly' Hill, who lived in a tree in Northern California for two years?
http://www.h2g2.com/A237881?section=%27Butterfly%27
JTG
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Peasman Posted Jun 6, 2000
Yeah, I thought that too. I was looking forward to seeing some helpful tree-lever person lifting mechanisms..... ah well.
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- 2: Uncle Ugly 52409 (Aug 23, 1999)
- 3: Olaf the, er, Hesitant (Aug 24, 1999)
- 4: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (Aug 25, 1999)
- 5: Olaf the, er, Hesitant (Aug 28, 1999)
- 6: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (Aug 29, 1999)
- 7: Olaf the, er, Hesitant (Aug 30, 1999)
- 8: Uncle Ugly 52409 (Sep 2, 1999)
- 9: Uncle Ugly 52409 (Sep 2, 1999)
- 10: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (Sep 4, 1999)
- 11: Uncle Ugly 52409 (Sep 4, 1999)
- 12: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (Sep 4, 1999)
- 13: Uncle Ugly 52409 (Sep 8, 1999)
- 14: The Cat (May 21, 2000)
- 15: Dingleberry (May 21, 2000)
- 16: John the gardener says, "Free Tibet!" (May 21, 2000)
- 17: Fenchurch M. Mercury (May 22, 2000)
- 18: Peasman (Jun 6, 2000)
- 19: Princess Bride (Jun 6, 2000)
- 20: The Cat (Jun 13, 2000)
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