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Tag: tree

  • Under the gnarly roots of a large tree, a small boy eats a Cornetto.

    Found GCARTJ6 The Pylon King

    It took the geokid and I a moment or two to work out why this pylon was king, but once we had it was easy to find this (good-sized) cache. What a delightful Spring afternoon it was! And then the geokid found a tree under which the banks had eroded, making a perfect "hobbit hole" cave within its exposed roots (where he ate his ice cream).

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    • posted 31 March, 2026
  • Not sure I'm a fan of these new ultra-minimalist Christmas trees.

    Full image of Display bed of Christmas trees outside a hardware store except each pot, labelled with its species and approximate height, is empty.
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    Display bed of Christmas trees outside a hardware store except each pot, labelled with its species and approximate height, is empty.

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    • 3 comments
    • posted 7 December, 2025
  • Jonah's Oak; a large and well-kept oak tree in the middle of a hedgerow, with plaques on and around it, with festival workings in the background.

    Found GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak

    This checkin to GCAJH34 Jonah's Oak reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. My little tribe and I have, in some form of another, been attending Cropredy for decades: intermittently in the past, but lately with more regularity every year. For me, it's coincided with the growth of our family: I've โ€ฆ

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    • posted 9 August, 2025
  • I've been playing Sean O'Connor's Slay for around 30 years (!), but somehow it took until today, on the Android version, before I tried my hand at "rewilding" the game world.

    Full image of Hex-based videogame board, entirely owned by the yellow player, but with only a single solitary soldier standing alone. The rest of the island is heavily forested in pine and, along one coast, palm trees, with the exception of the far North beyond a line of castles.
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    Hex-based videogame board, entirely owned by the yellow player, but with only a single solitary soldier standing alone. The rest of the island is heavily forested in pine and, along one coast, palm trees, with the exception of the far North beyond a line of castles.

    The rules of the game make trees... a bad thing: you earn no income from hexes with them. But by the time I was winning this map anyway, I figured that encouraging growback would be a pleasant way to finish the round.

    Play your videogames any damn way you want. Don't let anybody tell you there's a right or wrong way to enjoy a single-player game. Today I took a strategy wargame and grew a forest. How will you play?

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    • posted 8 March, 2025
  • A cluster of three baubles hangs among pink and white fairy lights: one is a multicoloured assortment of bells, another is a plain white bauble decorated with glittery green and red spots, a third is a transparent plastic sphere containing a colourful children's drawing of a stocking.

    Babies and Baubles

    Each year, we encourage our two children to each select exactly one new bauble to add to our tree. The result is a decoration that's a celebration of the changing tastes and interests of our two kinds: a mismatched, discordant, crazy mixture of colours and shapes, but in which each and every item is its own story.

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    • posted 3 December, 2024
  • Image representing post: Emails to Melbourne's trees

    Emails to Melbourne's trees

    Melbourne gave 70,000 trees email addresses so people could report on their condition. But instead people are writing love letters, existential queries and sometimes just bad puns.

    ...

    Margaret Burin (ABC News)
    In an effort to facilitate better tracking of the health of their trees, the city of Melbourne assigned an email address to each of โ€ฆ

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    • posted 12 December, 2018
  • Image representing post: The Christmas Tree Is Up

    The Christmas Tree Is Up



    Click for a bigger picture.

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    • posted 12 December, 2008
  • Cool Thing Of The Day

    Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #19:

    Get very drunk, and fall asleep up a tree. Wake up at sometime after 3:00am, in the rain, and wonder where the fuck you are, before climbing down and going to bed... Realise that a search party had been organised โ€ฆ

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    • posted 15 October, 1999

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