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when dad bought his first house in thirroul around about 1982 he immediately started planting native trees in the front yard and spent the next 15 years building a stand of illawarra subtropical rainforest. it wasn't a big yard but it was hidden from the street by a brush fence so when you were in it it was easy to imagine you were actually in the rainforest and not in a suburban front yard. this is later when it was well established and i was in high school. in the late 1990s when i was overseas and my brother was living in tasmania he sold the house and moved up the mid-north coast, and the new owner chopped everything down and made a lawn.

hold on where's that laughing and crying emoticon? that's the one i need.

hu8manity has a primal fear and hatred of trees.

i hope this doesn't sound presumptuous or rude steve but how do you figure that?

steve shearer wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2019 4:27 pm

hu8manity has a primal fear and hatred of trees.

Not in the cities, but certainly in the country they hate them.

apparently in the cities too Foamingham, maybe worse.

even old Beanpole is foaming at the mouth over them.

I just couldn't get enough of the ancient temples overgrown by trees in Cambodia. Such complex emotions, civilisations rising and falling, slowly returning to nothingness

Persepolis was buried in sand, reclaimed by the desert, till it was excavated.
No trees grow there
And so will nature erase all evidence of us, when Homo sapiens becomes extinct

Cranked wrote: ↑

Fri May 03, 2019 6:18 pm

I just couldn't get enough of the ancient temples overgrown by trees in Cambodia. Such complex emotions, civilisations rising and falling, slowly returning to nothingness

100% agree. Preferably not your house returning to nothingness while youre living there and paying it off.

I must say after living in the Eastern Suburbs the wonder of ficus trees overpowering the buildings seemed a bit less ancient when I went to Cambodia. Twenty Years?

I hope all this tree talk is cheering Sunny up.

He’ll twig to it eventually

Might be healthy for him to branch out a little from surfing . Lord knows we have here at Realsurf .

Angkor Wat.... scene of the world's greatest gardening fiasco, even GSTQs spectacular attempts pale in comparison

Yes, a trip to Ankor is good for getting life in perspective. I'm sure the therapeutic qualities have helped many.......as well as standing as a warning against inappropriate planting of large trees near buildings.

offshore1 wrote: ↑

Sat May 04, 2019 4:41 am

Might be healthy for him to branch out a little from surfing . Lord knows we have here at Realsurf .

He actually has - he did the Hawaiian Ironman triathlon a couple of years back and was still a keen follower and observer of triathlon and mountain biking

Edit: apologies, false information.

Very sad. RIP