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Message started by gazab44 on 07/10/05 at 01:19:15

Title: memories for Paladin
Post by gazab44 on 07/10/05 at 01:19:15

Hope this brings back some fond memories for you Paladin :)

gary

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.brooks2/oak.jpg

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by Mr 650 on 07/10/05 at 03:16:21

Gaz, This appears to be a reply to something, why another thread started & I wonder what you are responding to? ???

Nice old tree I reckon, a few cords in that one.

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by Paladin on 07/10/05 at 05:02:07

Gaz lives in Nottingham, near Sherwood forest, home of Robin Hood. The tree you see, above, is Major Oak; which is somewhere around a thousand years old, judged by it's size of 52 feet tall, 92 feet across, with a 35 foot waistline in it's trunk. Legend has it that Robin Hood hid inside the hollow centre of Major Oak.

I had mentioned, in a PM, that I had visited Major Oak back in the early '80's when I took a motorcycle vacation in England/Scotland.

There had been an arson fire in the '90's and for a while the tree's survival was in doubt. But it made it. Someday I hope to visit it again.

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by gazab44 on 07/10/05 at 06:38:47

Mr 650 wrote:

Gaz, This appears to be a reply to something, why another thread started & I wonder what you are responding to? ???

Nice old tree I reckon, a few cords in that one.

sorry mr 650.....hope Paladin has cleared it up :)

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by Greg_650 on 07/10/05 at 08:18:02

Too bad that you couldn't have parked your bike in front of that big old tree ::)

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by Paladin on 07/10/05 at 09:02:01

AFAIK you cannot even stand next to it any more -- too many tourists were compacting the soil and killing the tree.

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by Greg_650 on 07/10/05 at 10:19:19

Paladin wrote:

AFAIK you cannot even stand next to it any more -- too many tourists were compacting the soil and killing the tree.

Inquiring minds want to know....is it easier to type "AFAIK" than "As far as I know"?

Just wondered 8)

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by Paladin on 07/10/05 at 12:36:36

Si, standard abv.. Along with IMHO, TANSTAAFL, YMMV, etc..

Title: Re: memories for Paladin
Post by gazab44 on 07/11/05 at 02:22:11

this is what it looks like now....it is all fenced off so no chance of getting a pic with bike :(

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gary.brooks2/majoroaknow.jpg