Watching a tv program

At 6pm Saturday we watched a guy mostly on foot or cycle covering the geographical centre of Scotland I soon realise how old age is arriving the guide bloke said he was working with a 4 decade guide book from within the family heck Wilma and I cover 6 decades in our relationship. None the less he spent time with a local showing a very old Yew tree expected to be over three thousand years old he even admitted lots of locals and visitors had removed quantities of this tree and made items of furniture etc and I just wondered how many penmakers have owned up.

He had cut out an outline map of Scotland placed a pencil under the map and where it balanced said this must be the true centre in the highlands.

Very interesting there seemed to be outstanding root burl in that tree.

Peter.:iknow:

Peter,

Sounds like the Fontingall Yew. They cant make their minds up how old it is, varies between 2,000 and 5,000 yrs old.

Thanks Neil the program rambled on and pronunciation and spelling escaped me, we just finished a beaut series on the Dales best part of TV in my opinion very natural presentations, no frills suits us fine.

Kind regards Peter.

Penpal said:

Thanks Neil the program rambled on and pronunciation and spelling escaped me, we just finished a beaut series on the Dales best part of TV in my opinion very natural presentations, no frills suits us fine.

Kind regards Peter.

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I've seen that series Peter, very enjoyable.

Think it was Nick Crane did that program ..the chap from Coast.

I thought at one stage you were going to say you remember when it was planted.

Any effing geezer cutting chunks from that tree should be strung up and hanged from one of its branches!!!

Bob.

paulm said:

I thought at one stage you were going to say you remember when it was planted.

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Too young for me to remember.

Peter.