Guess the age

[David Humphries]

.........first prize is free admission to Kelvngrove Museum in Glasgow to see the ring for yourself.

 

Well ain't that kinda just given it away

 

 

 

 

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[RMB68]

Admission is free to kelvingrove museum anyway.

[Yournamehere]

Yebbut if you win it's really free.

Really free, really free, gor blimey baby that's really free</JO&WWB>

[daltontrees]

And the answer is about 600 years old. Plus 115.

[daltontrees]

Admission is free to kelvingrove museum anyway.

 

Yeah I wasn't clear about this. I meant that Paul Rodgers and Paul Kossoff will hold the doors open for you. Except that one of them's dead. What a swiz!

[Gary Prentice]

And the answer is about 600 years old. Plus 115.

 

There's lots of abouts in the answer: probably cut down around 1900, and, about 600 yrs old at the time.

 

My estimate is that it is that it that the first true 'leaves' appeared in the spring of 1395.

[daltontrees]

I can't help being reminded of Joni Mitchell's lyrics in 'Big Yellow Taxi'

 

They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum

And they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em

 

Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot

 

Now I feel as ancient as that tree, quoting Joni Mitchell and Free in the same thread. Lost on the youngsters, I expect...