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Originally Posted by Paul mabbott I've only got the grey-black-white beard: perhaps I should have it tinted?
One of my common activities is going around looking at the trunks of trees ... I get the strangest looks (and comments - 'not talking to you, then?') but fortunately people keep away from me (can't say that I blame them) especially in London although people are more chatty in Sheffield ... I don't mind explaining what I'm doing and revealing the wonders of bark fauna *but* it's a nuisance while I'm trying to count, a ten minute job can take an hour! It's not that people aren't curious but, in London, you don't go up to a man who's staring at trees ... I was examining some on an avenue in Hyde Park once and while people didn't approach me, they quietly went up to the tree before last to see what I was looking at ... at one point I had a couple of dowagers, a nanny with push-chair and a troop of Belgian scouts following me ... |
He he! I shall be in Sheffield on Friday (Peaks actually) so if I see a bearded, tree talking, bug counting chap with a gaggle of women following him, I'll know it's you! I'll say hello!
