More from the SAS
Got some more acorn packages in the post yesterday.
Really nice looking acorns too from The Chained Oak at Alton Towers which is one I dont have and have been really wanting. Also more from the Darley Oak in Cornwall and The Wyndham Oak in North Dorset.
One of the packages was addressed to the SAS (Special Acorn Service)! Made me laugh seeing this. Not sure what my post woman thinks these days!
Thank you so much to all of you who sent these, hope this post finds you as I'm getting a bit lost with so many messages at the minute to thank you personally.
I'm not far off getting the 37 acorns from most of the oldest and iconic oak trees in the UK and Ireland. My mind has been so stimulated with this project lately. The next thing I want to do after I get the spiral the way I want it and all planted up is build a good phantom planter website with all our work logged on here. I'm thinking of putting a QR code at each oak tree and it will take you to the website and tell you all about the mother tree.
Spent some time yesterday carrying wood into the centre of the spiral where we are going to light a fire on Samhain night and it just dawned on me that growing up I always had my own bonfire to celebrate the Twelfth which is a Protestant festival and now I'm building bonfires to celebrate a Celtic festival.
I am half rebel anyway with my wee mum being from Ardoyne. King Billy took the Boyne but he'll never take Ardoyne is what she used to say.
Always love a good fire, so much so that I burnt our house down when I was a kid and we had to move out! Had my wee mums head tortured. Then on another occasion someone set me on fire at our local bonfire and I was running around in flames with all the neighbours running out with buckets of water to throw round me. That was to do with my delboy dads counterfeit Adidas shell suits not being fire retardant, it went up in flames!!
Thats what the doctor says anyway.
Karma always gets you though, even for a child.
I'm a bit more sensible at fires these days, although my girlfriend might say different. I lit a fire out her back last year with her kids and it went up in true Belfast style, they all went running when it went up like a fire bomb!
Changed times in society, these days people worry about their kids walking to the shops, in my day we were making petrol bombs.
Have a good weekend guys..
I challenge you to phantom plant a tree
Peace and love
The Phantom Planter
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