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by **jim** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:17 am

MARCH 21ST IS INTERNATIONAL TREE CLIMBING DAY!

Anyone interested?

by **Sharon** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 9:22 am

hahahaha....that has brightened up my start to the day!!!

Sounds alot of fun.

and a bit more lively that say this which is currently proposed!

...i'd need a more ....accommodating tree that i did in my early years!

by **jim** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:26 pm

Do they have tree's in these bone yards? Perhaps a combined expedition is in order? Maybe get a nice birds-eye view of the cemeteries?

by **Sharon** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 12:47 pm

man...i'm picturing a graveyard full of trees full of people hanging there like over ripe fruit !!

A combined expedition sounds good.

And it would be nice to see things from an uncommon vantage point!

by **crusty_bint** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:13 pm

man...i'm picturing a graveyard full of trees full of people hanging there like over ripe fruit !!

Wahahahaha!!!!!!! Thats should make for some interestin fotaes ...think I'll need to bring a rope ladder if we're doing some climbing tho :oops:

And wots wrong with the graveyard trip (:)), Im sure it'll be more fruitful than our search for cup and ringworks... tut-huh :roll:

by **Sharon** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:17 pm

shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! you weren't supposed to mention that again!!!!

I was trying (and failing) to play on words with the graveyards comment (lively death etc....oh well) :wink:

and you should be ok...you managed to get up onto the watertowers 8ft high piles afterall!!! i expect to see you swinging from the treetops with this one!

by **jim** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 3:57 pm

"man...i'm picturing a graveyard full of trees full of people hanging there like over ripe fruit !!"

shouldn't that be 'strange fruit'?

Maybe a rope would be in order. None of us are getting any younger.[/quote]

by **Fossil** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 6:33 pm

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sounds good. A stiff and tree day. What more can we ask for. Whos an expert on trees on the forum then.
Do you think we should take out block insurance for the day (anyone over 25 that is)
Injurys aplenty bring it on ::):

by **crusty_bint** » Thu Mar 11, 2004 7:18 pm

this is drifiting into vulgarity... all this talk of "wood" and stiffs"... hmmmmmmmm... sure Freud would have something to say about it :)! ::):

by **Pgcc93** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 12:00 am

Jim, are there any rules for getting up a tree. For instance, do you have to free climb unassited from the outset or are you allowed a wee punty up from a friend just to get things started?? :wink:

And will competitors be screened for banned substances?

We don't want to fall foul with 'The International Treeclimbing Society' (TITS)now do we? ::):

by **Pgcc93** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:19 am

On the subject of tree's, We've got a Witches Bow in the garden? It's two rowan trees that have been magicaly joined at the trunks approximately 8 ft at its apex. It forms an archway. Anyone got a clue to what a Witches Bow is.? It was a neighbour who used this term BTW. Its been here for a good century plus going by the growth rate of rowantrees. (slow)

I'll get a pic of it for your deliberation. Maybe 'The Voice of Reason' can shed some light onto this ancient tree bending custom.?
It only came to light last year when we had the tree surgeon round thinning out some of the forest in the gardens. He was loathe to do much to it apart from giving it a trim, the sensible fella. He'd only came across a few of them in his time, stating that it was a bit special and should be preserved.

by **cataclyzm** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:18 pm

Well:

If you visited a park in childhood (say the beautiful victorian Richmond Park in Bridgeton) with wonderfull mature trees overlooking the intersecting pathways. If you loved that park and its proximity to the Clyde before it enters the city centre, and returned to the place you so loved in childhood after many years; would the trees remember you from all those years back? Would they know how much has changed around them?

Robert Kelly.

by **Sharon** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:49 pm

[url=http://www.hiddenglasgow.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=265]EVENT: Walking among the dead and climbing their trees! 21st March
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by **jim** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:25 pm

Several tits in a tree sounds good!

As far as I can ascertain anything goes: ropes, punty's, ladders, trampolines. The thing is to get up there and feel the breeze.

As far as I'm concerned a day out which involves tree-climbing in various graveyards is about as good as it gets.

http://duo.irational.org/international_ ... _day/2004/

by **Fossil** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:21 pm

jim wrote:Several tits in a tree sounds good!....
.....As far as I'm concerned a day out which involves tree-climbing in various graveyards is about as good as it gets.

If anyone is thinking of wearing a kilt, please remember, do not go out Commando:wink:

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