Mar 14 2010

The moving trees in Painswick …

Category: Pictures,TweetsChrisM @ 9:01 pm

The moving trees in Painswick – http://twitpic.com/18kbwj

Trees In Painswick

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8 Responses to “The moving trees in Painswick …”

  1. Miranda says:

    moving? I didn't know they moved?! I just thought there were only 99 because the hundredth always dies.

  2. Miranda Cardew says:

    moving? I didn't know they moved?! I just thought there were only 99 because the hundredth always dies.

  3. Alex C says:

    Lovely picture – I can almost smell them and imagine I’m home. But moving? Or do you mean you were moving when you took the picture?
    Mat trimmed these trees one year I think – bitch of a job!

  4. ChrisM says:

    This is a 3rd hand story, but it was something along the lines of “the trees move around when no one is watching”. However, with Chinese whispers (am I still allowed to call the process that?) I can well imagine it started off as “there are so many tress you can’t reliably count them all” and just got embellished in its aural journey. I hadn’t heard the “100th will die, always leaving 99” story. I guess I could google it, but I have a lot of comments to catch up on today, and a lot of posts to write – I’ve been very lax whilst we were in Britain 🙁

  5. Alex C says:

    Ah, ok. Yes, that rings a bell now. A bit like the Rollroght stones, purportedly never to total the same number on consecutive countings.