Not politically, thankfully.
When we walk, if I'm on his right, I end up on the verge or in the mud. Okay, I usually push him back before that, but you get the picture. If I'm on his left he seems more balanced. He blames his weakness and wobbliness following the operation but he's always leaned that way.
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Two bits of good news this week. The choice of new pope seems a good one, a man who will follow in Francis' footsteps regarding the poor and immigrants; and the two men charged with cutting down the world-famous Sycamore Gap tree have been found guilty.
I say 'world-famous' but I'd never heard of it until it was chopped down, but it was a 300-year-old tree in Northumberland, next to Hadrian's Wall.
Another tiny morsel of good news: there are two Welshmen in the squad for the British and Irish Lions team that will tour Australia in the summer. It was possible there wouldn't be any so two out of thirty-eight is pretty good.
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I hope the British and Irish LIons acquit themselves well, or there will be much muttering in this house.
I hope the tree fellers are sentenced to community service, planting many hundreds of trees to the point of terminal blisters.
I remember that news item about the Sycamore Gap tree. Glad the culprits were found and prosecuted. Too bad they never found the criminals who chopped down the Holy Thorn of Glastonbury on Wearyall Hill.
Even I have heard of that tree's demise. Grr.
I have not heard of that tree either but glad they were found guilty why in the world would they do that???
My husband does that to me when we are walking too!
Cathy
"mindless vandalism" is how the cutting down of the tree was described....... funnily enough, i've heard tell that the tree was 100 years old, 200 years old and 300 years old...... who knows?
Felling a much loved tree is wrong, but it is not knife crime. I hope common sense prevails.
I sometimes think I live under a rock. I hadn't heard anything about that tree.
Glad those two men were found guilty!
Here too, Janice.
That would be fitting, Boud.
It seems these criminals were particularly think, Debra.
Indeed, AC.
It's annoying, isn't it, Cathy?
I suppose they can count the rings now, AF.
As Boud says, tree planting would be a good service to the community, along with education.
You are a long way away, Ann!
Me too, Marie. Husband was following the case and he said there was no DNA or anything as definite as that.
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