I have heard this whispered elsewhere but this is a lovely, well written, article on a topic close to my patriotic heart:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8668587.stm
I shudder to think of what the death of our oaks could symbolise for us as a nation. Hearts of oak and the wooden walls of England are an essential part of our psychological roots.
I know how daft it sounds to those elsewhere in the world but if our oaks die then so do we, or at least one of the fundamental bulwarks of our sense of nationhood.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8668587.stm
I shudder to think of what the death of our oaks could symbolise for us as a nation. Hearts of oak and the wooden walls of England are an essential part of our psychological roots.
I know how daft it sounds to those elsewhere in the world but if our oaks die then so do we, or at least one of the fundamental bulwarks of our sense of nationhood.