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.
Although there is no 'repairing' of the tree, it's gone, it is encouraging that people care enough to investigate and take action against the idiots responsible.
I hope the British and Irish LIons acquit themselves well, or there will be much muttering in this house.
ReplyDeleteHere too, Janice.
DeleteI hope the tree fellers are sentenced to community service, planting many hundreds of trees to the point of terminal blisters.
ReplyDeleteThat would be fitting, Boud.
DeleteI 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.
ReplyDeleteIt seems these criminals were particularly think, Debra.
DeleteEven I have heard of that tree's demise. Grr.
ReplyDeleteIndeed, AC.
DeleteI have not heard of that tree either but glad they were found guilty why in the world would they do that???
ReplyDeleteMy husband does that to me when we are walking too!
Cathy
It's annoying, isn't it, Cathy?
Delete"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?
ReplyDeleteI suppose they can count the rings now, AF.
DeleteFelling a much loved tree is wrong, but it is not knife crime. I hope common sense prevails.
ReplyDeleteAs Boud says, tree planting would be a good service to the community, along with education.
DeleteI sometimes think I live under a rock. I hadn't heard anything about that tree.
ReplyDeleteYou are a long way away, Ann!
DeleteGlad those two men were found guilty!
ReplyDeleteMe too, Marie. Husband was following the case and he said there was no DNA or anything as definite as that.
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