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Did any newspaper use the headline, Sycanomore?

Just chanced across this extremely iconic replacement sycamore myself. This is the new best sycamore I said it. Points for working out where it is.
― imago, Saturday, 30 September 2023 12:06

Can we do guess the city (or town, perhaps) for this please? I don't know where it is, but am intrigued by the blue footbridge and buildings.

Your clue is that you possibly ought to know where it is!

Your other clue is that I'm currently in the UK's best building, but it certainly isn't Real England

imago's current location:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59a0154f8fd4d22e5e4f4e22/1504007511413-QAXY6F6DQ2ITMTH6Y51Z/Derelict.jpg

that's Blobbyworld isn't it

isn't it mark

in a sense are we not all of us dunblobbin

a very real sense

still the realest of englund:

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/10/14/article-1220390-06D1E14B000005DC-416_634x361.jpg

this is nature as i comprehend it

the soiled core

the Chronicle has a suggestions page! pic.twitter.com/k8JT4Px08S

— Peter Mitchell (@pdkmitchell) September 30, 2023

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/tv/robson-green-sycamore-gap-bbc-27807145?int_source=nba

Obsessed with hundreds of year events.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-66950410

WTF is going on. Is it the heat? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/30/mucky-duck-restaurant-digger-nottinghamshire-police

we are living in a Tom Sharpe novel

owners allowing listed buildings to get "accidentally" fucked up isn't a new phenomenon at all, might just be a little run of media outlets paying attention at the moment

ive been a week or two touring gloucestershire cornwall devon somerset ive seen some things

WTF is going on. Is it the heat?

https://images.amcsvod.io/b690fe0bf15607b7_thumbnail.jpg?w=400&h=225&fit=crop&crop=edges&auto=format,compress

xp you should've said, we'd've got gimp man out to say hi

oh i saw him and all the cousins and all

The Mucky Duck restaurant is in Drakeholes? How does Drake feel about that?

In my childhood, I spent many hours, over many years, in the Mucky Duck at Drakeholes, then known as the White Swan. They had a side room where children were allowed to sit, while their parents boozed at the bar. Oh the boredom.

i misread that as "boxed at the bar" for a moment which put a different spin on it

i'm seeing scampi-in-a-basket in this memory mike

imago were you in cumbernauld?

Scampi in a basket would have been beyond our wildest imaginations; Coke and crisps were the order of the day. The pub is by the Chesterfield Canal, and we had a mooring there. At Drakeholes, as a toddler, I fell in the canal in full view of a boat rally; my father jumped in to save me, and the story made the front page of the local newspaper. Happy days.

A cry for help?

cumbernauld it was, home of the new best sycamore and the soon to be former greatest town centre in these isles

now back to your scheduled drakeholes daredevilry

What's it ca'ed? Cumbernod.

They had that advert playing on a loop on a TV in the little Cumbernauld museum in that astonishing building

Also in the loop was a short film about placing pineapple bombs all around Cumbernauld. Real Scotland

I thought the same thing, it didn't look like an experienced woodman's cut

Not according to this retired lumberjack who said it was a "brilliant cut" but then he would say that as he cut the tree down.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12580169/Former-lumberjack-investigated-felling-Hadrians-Wall-sycamore.html

"you can tell a good lumberjack by the way he cuts a tree down. I haven't seen the cut obviously, but I have seen it on the computer.'

HE ADDED HASTILY.

'My chainsaw's down here by that barn door, but you can see that it hasn't been used for ages.'

AND I HAVEN"T GOT ACCESS TO ANY OTHER ONES NEITHER

just realised this is NOT what americans call a sycamore but a "sycamore maple", which is essentially invasive. i have one in my back garden. it drops thousands of little helicopters everywhere in the autumn, and an ungodly amount of sticky pollen in the spring. i spend the entire summer pulling out the little seedlings, which are able to grow even under tarps, with zero light. so like... i mean yes sad etc but there are BAZILLIONS of these trees in england

Evicted by Jesuits it appears. Case closed.

(xp)

woke jesuits

lmao

He said it had been the “perfect night” to do it because it was a full moon. “The wind would have meant there was barely any sound,” he said.

but... I don't know why anybody thinks I, a former lumberjack who'd just been kicked off my property that day, and have clearly thought about the right conditions for chopping down this tree, would chop down this tree

If I Chopped It

saw

an ungodly amount of sticky pollen in the spring

that's most likely honeydew aka aphid excretions! you can sometimes see it coming down from under sycamores like a miniature rain shower.

Sick Amor

i don't think so. mine produces these large yellow tufts of pollen that when they fall become little sticky balls that almost act like chewing gum. if you step on them they stick to the bottom of your shoe and are hell to get off.

but i am aware of the "honeydew" too! it gets all over the leaves of everything underneath it. delightful.

Earlier in the summer, Widget got a load of that sticky tufts pollen stuck to the fur between his toes. It was not fun for either of us to have to remove.

ah right, that stuff! anyway, til that in real england a scarf cut is known as a GOB.

a what and a what