[Jan Fisher]

There’s been a lot in the news lately about an historic English tree called the Sycamore Gap tree being cut down and honestly, I feel their pain.

Frankly I’d prefer vandals spray-paint rubbish graffiti on my fence than a beautiful tree being cut down.

This tree was estimated to be several hundred years old and stood in a valley traversed by Hadrian’s Wall.

Initially, it was blamed on a 16 year old but my suspicions were confirmed that was untrue when the investigations lead elsewhere. The cut looked too professional for a single teen to complete.

What goes through these people’s minds? It’s not like you’ve tripped over a twig. They would have had to plan it, to say nothing of the logistics of cutting a massive tree down in the middle of the night.

And what does it achieve? It’s not even like they needed it for firewood. At least I could understand that.

I hope they catch the wretched person and they are publicly outed.

What do you think of tree vandals?

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