Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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Oak galls, sometimes known as oak apples, are caused by specialist, "Gall" wasps, which lay an egg on some part of the tree and when the larvae hatches it secretes a chemical that causes the oak to produce these growths. The larvae lives and feeds inside the Gall until it is an adult, then it eats its way out.

Incredible eh?

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It's a beaut Tom. What are you going to do with it? Leave it where it is or re plant it?

Amazing to think it could live to 800 years+

It's funny you should ask that Kev, I've been wondering about it myself.

Of course I'll never get the pleasure of sitting beneath it, but it would be nice to think that in a couple of hundred years, someone will.

When we first came here 25 years ago, the loss of our son was still raw, and I thought about planting a tree in his memory. For various reasons, it didn't happen.

Perhaps serendipity has taken a hand.

[Kev B]

It's a beaut Tom. What are you going to do with it? Leave it where it is or re plant it?

Amazing to think it could live to 800 years+

It's funny you should ask that Kev, I've been wondering about it myself.

Of course I'll never get the pleasure of sitting beneath it, but it would be nice to think that in a couple of hundred years, someone will.

When we first came here 25 years ago, the loss of our son was still raw, and I thought about planting a tree in his memory. For various reasons, it didn't happen.

Perhaps serendipity has taken a hand.

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