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[SteveH]

Hey Steve

Are you running a hippy commune down there in Wales?

Your supposed to paint the town red, not the trees blue. 

 Not a Hippy... Just a left wing, Liberal, Anarchic Buddhist...

 I saw the tree as shown (No PhotoShop) in a field just outside Lampeter... Who, Why, What for, I have no idea... I just thought it looked good... The tree was wrapped in strips of some sort of blue woven nylon fabric, like the material they make those bulk sand bags out of....

[Amy]

Well maybe, just maybe, ......llampeter students put the woven fabric in the tree during .........RAG week?

Im all in favour of Buddhist though. 

[Ivan]

There are three identical trees just outside Monmouth (on road up to Trellech, in case anyone wants to look for them). At first I thought a real tree had been painted, then realised that all three were identical (and identical to Steve's picture) - which suggests someone, somewhere is casting them.

[Billy]

We did have a plastic tree in Tonbridge which was being used as a mast.  BT was told to take it down and it ended up in a pub garden in Hildenborough.  Or maybe it was a mast in a pub garden, my mind is rather misty about it, can anyone remember the details I wonder.

Billy the Barge

 

[SteveH]

There are three identical trees just outside Monmouth (on road up to Trellech, in case anyone wants to look for them). At first I thought a real tree had been painted, then realised that all three were identical (and identical to Steve's picture) - which suggests someone, somewhere is casting them.

 Here you go Ivan

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/6684199.stm

 &

http://www.philippalawrence.com/f/p_bound.html

 I'm not much into "Art", well at least what the media try to present as such, Unmade beds & piles of bricks e.t.c. but this is quite striking & rather draws you into thinking more about the natural environment...

Must admit... "Look at all that air dried fire wood", did get caught up in my mussings...

[Ivan]

Ah, the mystery is solved! That's what it's all about. Certainly eye-catching, but I always wonder whether a £10k arts grant could have been spent more wisely trying to solve our many and varied problems.

[Richard Owen]

Well, the problem of wrapping a tree in coloured fabric has been well and truly solved.