Dec 22, 2008: Pudding Tree

Aliantha · 12-21-2008, 03:30 PM

Here's one from The Daily Mail that our pommy mates will probably already have seen.

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It looks good enough to eat - but this is one Christmas pudding you certainly wouldn't want to cover in flaming brandy.
The 20ft-high creation was the idea of Roger and Valerie Holley. It is made of two 25-year-old conifers which Mr Holley, 60, merged together.

He and his wife, 64, spent five years pruning the trees in front of their home in Yeovil, Somerset to perfect the round shape.

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monster · 12-21-2008, 08:47 PM

his name is Holley! made-up-name

cood idea, though

xoxoxoBruce · 12-21-2008, 11:05 PM

Green pudding?

Gravdigr · 12-22-2008, 12:30 AM

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Green pudding?

England. Go figure.

Trilby · 12-22-2008, 06:19 AM

I LOVE it! I love it when people go completely off their rockers and do stuff like this so we all can have a good laugh. Good for them!

back in the mid 90's I was so down and depressed and Christmas just was horrible. I would get up at 5am to be at my job by 6am...daring myself to crash into a tree instead of trudge thru another day of the awful depression. The only bright spot in those days was the Christmas lights I'd see along the way to work. They cheered my heart so much. they really WERE a light in the darkness. because those lights helped me SO MUCH I always keep my Christmas lights on all thru the night (for second and third shift workers) and leave them up thru Jan. I know it sounds stupid, but those people who decorated saved me.

tulzscha · 12-22-2008, 09:22 PM

'shop?

DanaC · 12-22-2008, 09:26 PM

Nah. That looks perfectly possible and likely. I admit the colouring at the top is unusual, and it's bloody imaginative, but elaborately shaped hedges (whats the name for that again?) aren't exactly unsual.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-22-2008, 09:30 PM

Topiary.

tulzscha · 12-22-2008, 09:39 PM

I know, there are a few other photos of it. But someone's gotta throw the "'shop" card, or it's not a real thread :P

SPUCK · 12-23-2008, 05:03 AM

Yeah that's shopped... like my shiny metal ass!!

Saw an hour of that just now.. Had to fit in a Bender quote.

Aliantha · 12-23-2008, 05:09 AM

I first saw this on Sky news. They had a reporter there with a cameraman who was filming. That was when I thought it'd make a good Iodt.

It's not shopped.

Sundae · 12-23-2008, 06:24 AM

What I want to see is when they douse it in brandy and set light to it.
Now that would be a worthy news item.

12-21-2008, 08:47 PM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	his name is Holley! made-up-name cood idea, though __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

12-21-2008, 11:05 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Green pudding? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-22-2008, 06:19 AM	#5
Trilby Slattern of the Swail Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 15,654	I LOVE it! I love it when people go completely off their rockers and do stuff like this so we all can have a good laugh. Good for them! back in the mid 90's I was so down and depressed and Christmas just was horrible. I would get up at 5am to be at my job by 6am...daring myself to crash into a tree instead of trudge thru another day of the awful depression. The only bright spot in those days was the Christmas lights I'd see along the way to work. They cheered my heart so much. they really WERE a light in the darkness. because those lights helped me SO MUCH I always keep my Christmas lights on all thru the night (for second and third shift workers) and leave them up thru Jan. I know it sounds stupid, but those people who decorated saved me. __________________ In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic. "Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her. —James Barrie Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum

12-22-2008, 09:30 PM	#8
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Topiary. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-23-2008, 05:09 AM	#11
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	I first saw this on Sky news. They had a reporter there with a cameraman who was filming. That was when I thought it'd make a good Iodt. It's not shopped. __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

12-22-2008, 09:22 PM	#6
tulzscha Cantankerous Incantonator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 57	'shop?

12-22-2008, 09:26 PM	#7
DanaC We have to go back, Kate! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Yorkshire Posts: 25,964	Nah. That looks perfectly possible and likely. I admit the colouring at the top is unusual, and it's bloody imaginative, but elaborately shaped hedges (whats the name for that again?) aren't exactly unsual.

12-22-2008, 09:39 PM	#9
tulzscha Cantankerous Incantonator Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 57	I know, there are a few other photos of it. But someone's gotta throw the "'shop" card, or it's not a real thread :P

12-23-2008, 05:03 AM	#10
SPUCK Professor Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,911	Yeah that's shopped... like my shiny metal ass!! Saw an hour of that just now.. Had to fit in a Bender quote.

12-23-2008, 06:24 AM	#12
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	What I want to see is when they douse it in brandy and set light to it. Now that would be a worthy news item.

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