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!
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 🙁
January 1st, 1970 5:00 am
March 14th, 2010 7:02 pm
moving? I didn't know they moved?! I just thought there were only 99 because the hundredth always dies.
March 15th, 2010 12:02 am
moving? I didn't know they moved?! I just thought there were only 99 because the hundredth always dies.
March 18th, 2010 2:12 am
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!
April 1st, 2010 3:07 pm
See https://chrismerriman.com/the-moving-trees-in-painswick/ for reply 🙂
April 2nd, 2010 2:03 pm
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 🙁
April 2nd, 2010 10:07 am
See https://chrismerriman.com/the-moving-trees-in-painswick/ for reply 🙂
April 6th, 2010 2:28 am
Ah, ok. Yes, that rings a bell now. A bit like the Rollroght stones, purportedly never to total the same number on consecutive countings.