Can’t decide today on Tree of the Day. Pics 1-2 sent to me from a friend in Dublin. Stunning to see the electricity wire going through it. 3-4 apparently the oldest tree in England. The base is amazing. Help me decide.
Covid secure @bbc filming — I get my own toilet
Early Tree of the Day announcement. Left to right gold silver bronze. I love the ones that stand out against the crowd. Free signed copy LIVING BETTER for first correct guess of where I am. So easy. I should add it was lovely to bump into an Irishwoman 20 years sober who said she had just finished the book and was planning to buy it for her seven siblings/closest friends. This is a policy of which I wholly approve, even if like so many others she spent most of our chat telling @fiona_millar2158 she was a saint to have stayed with me
Sometimes it is just something about the symmetry and the location (near top end of Baker St) that takes your fancy. This is my Tree of the Day gold medal 🥇 winner, seeing off much stiff competition of classically more beautiful trees, as I did a two hour bike ride through most of the main parks this morning. Now just need to settle down ahead of @burnleyofficial game. Only six hours to go
Thanks @thecatholictablet for a full page review of LIVING BETTER which friend and neighbour Conor Gearty dropped off. He’s a subscriber. I don’t do God, which is usually the context in which I am in The Tablet. But it is a very nice review full of glowing words and phrases, a litany of which I can imagine on the paperback cover. I can even live with ‘long winded and unsubtle’ though probably not for the paperback. The usual OTT propaganda for Saint @fiona_millar2158 of course. But just one complaint. Please don’t use the word ‘commit’ when referring to suicide. That stems from the time it was a crime and a sin. It’s not any more. It is the ultimate in illness. Anyway thanks for all the other stuff about how brave and handsome and full of good stories I am!! And may Your God go with you
So many thanks to the lovely @silvanatrevale (a brilliant photographer as you will see from her insta) for these two photos. Can’t decide which I prefer. Stern in colour or smiley in black and white. Advice needed followers!
Some of the trees on Hampstead Heath, as we were having our usual chats this morning, expressed disquiet that I had been awarding too many medals to foreign and non HH trees of late. It’s true there was a time when HH was sweeping the podium most days. So today is the first Tree of the Day TotD Team Lifetime Achievement Award winner. Let’s hear it for Hampstead Heath.
I do like a strong urban tree adapting to the built environment .... near Euston
So caught up with book stuff, @keirstarmer stuff @borisjohnsonuk stuff I totally forgot about my Tree of the Day yesterday. Here it is. Another win for bike rides out of London
Tory benches listening to their awful leader. All. White. Men.
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