Funny, touching article: "Prisoners are being sent out into the grounds of their jails to hug trees as part of a Lottery-funded scheme." At first I thought it was some sort of enviro-kooky, touchy-feely therapy for British inmates. But no, this is tree-hugging of a different sort. Many British prisons are located on former estates that have ancient trees on their property, and the prisoners are hugging them to measure th trunk size of these magnificent trees.
"Amongst the trees already known about are a yew in Scotland which experts say could be 5,000 years old and once provided a resting place for Pontius Pilate."
"Also there are the hollow trees which hid Charles II, those used by Robin Hood, others preached beneath by John Wesley and one in East Sussex which so impressed Queen Elizabeth that she left her shoes there."
Wicked cool!
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