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LollaMac<p>It is always good to get feedback from our customers:<br>"We had such a poignant return visit to the tree since it was felled, still such a beautiful and magical place and the day ended with a very special gift from my husband. A piece of your sycamore jewellery I will treasure it always and thank you for making such simple but meaningful pieces of art. xxx"</p><p><a href="https://www.lollamac.co.uk/item-category/lollamac-jewellery-collection/collections/northumbrian-forests/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lollamac.co.uk/item-category/l</span><span class="invisible">ollamac-jewellery-collection/collections/northumbrian-forests/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://handmade.social/tags/LollaMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LollaMac</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/HandmadeUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HandmadeUK</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/HadriansWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HadriansWall</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/Northumberland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Northumberland</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/silver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>silver</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>copper</span></a> <a href="https://handmade.social/tags/jewellery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>jewellery</span></a></p>
Rick Gaehl<p>Sycamore Gap was in the news again last week, when the antisocial inadequates who felled it were sentenced to over four years each. That won't bring the tree back, of course, but it was a sign of how much people cared. Meanwhile, new hope and actions will spring from the wreckage - and we still have our memories...</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ThickTrunkTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThickTrunkTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trees</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Landscape</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychogeography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychogeography</span></a></p>
Eilt<p>Niet alle bomen zijn gelijk<br><a href="https://youtu.be/ZGmV2-XCcv8?si=gFg5dy9VnalXNZNF" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/ZGmV2-XCcv8?si=gFg5dy</span><span class="invisible">9VnalXNZNF</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/Sycamore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sycamore</span></a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/sycamoregap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sycamoregap</span></a></p>
MediaFaro Magazine<p>The Sycamore Gap case has shed light on a deeper issue with trees.</p><p>The felling of the Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland has put our relationship with trees, and the natural world more widely, back under the spotlight.</p><p>It has prompted calls for stricter legal protections for other trees and drawn attention to wider issues</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250715-the-sycamore-gap-case-has-shed-light-on-a-deeper-issue-with-trees?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250715</span><span class="invisible">-the-sycamore-gap-case-has-shed-light-on-a-deeper-issue-with-trees?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Heritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Heritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a></p>
MediaFaro News Digest<p>A British court hands jail sentences to two men who chopped down an iconic tree.</p><p>The two men who, in 2023, felled a tree that stood next to the ancient Roman site of Hadrian's Wall for nearly 200 years, were both sentenced to four years and three months in jail.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250715-a-british-court-hands-jail-sentences-to-two-men-who-chopped-down-an-iconic-tree?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250715</span><span class="invisible">-a-british-court-hands-jail-sentences-to-two-men-who-chopped-down-an-iconic-tree?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/HadriansWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HadriansWall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a></p>
Religious Naturalist Assoc.<p>When a crime against a small part of Nature occurs, there is a will to do justice.</p><p>We need the same will when talking about the environment, or the plight of entire cultures' worth of people, all of whom are inextricably part of the same Nature as the tree of the Sycamore Gap. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReligiousNaturalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousNaturalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/ReligiousNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousNaturalist</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c93969ln7zwo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.com/news/articles/c93969ln</span><span class="invisible">7zwo</span></a></p>
HypathieBlog<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> 4 ans ! Pas cher. </p><p><a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/sycamore-gap-tree-deux-hommes-condamnes-a-quatre-ans-de-prison-pour-l-abattage-de-cet-arbre-centenaire-20250715" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lefigaro.fr/international/syca</span><span class="invisible">more-gap-tree-deux-hommes-condamnes-a-quatre-ans-de-prison-pour-l-abattage-de-cet-arbre-centenaire-20250715</span></a></p>
Andy<p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/HadriansWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HadriansWall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/England" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>England</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Britain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Britain</span></a> <br>Even now, I can’t understand why anyone would’ve even contemplated committing such a crime. In an ideal world they’d be forced to spend five years planting trees for the forestry commission when their prison sentence is complete.<br>(Unpaid community service of course!)</p><p><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/sycamore-gap-tree-stump-showing-signs-of-life-as-men-face-sentencing-for-felling-landmark-13396838" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.sky.com/story/sycamore-ga</span><span class="invisible">p-tree-stump-showing-signs-of-life-as-men-face-sentencing-for-felling-landmark-13396838</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>They're jerks and they should suffer for their idiocy for the rest of their mistaken lives, but Prison?</p><p>I thought they were full? </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jul/15/sycamore-gap-tree-felling-men-jailed" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j</span><span class="invisible">ul/15/sycamore-gap-tree-felling-men-jailed</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKCrime</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>That's their best excuse? <br>"I was a drunken idiot"</p><p>Yeah, we know, and that's why we're punishing you for the poor decisions you made </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKCrime</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>"I know it was daft but I put a Rod Stewart wig on so people didn't spot me."</p><p>Makes you wonder what crimes Rod Stewart wears his wig for...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RodStewart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RodStewart</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKCrime</span></a></p>
Laura aka LoboTC<p>'People can hug the <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> tree again' – <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tree</span></a> 🌳 trunk installed at The Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre near Hadrian's Wall in Northumberland UK<br><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/belovedtree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>belovedtree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/installation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>installation</span></a> <br><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygv2n8jy2o" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5ygv2</span><span class="invisible">n8jy2o</span></a></p>
Dave<p>The Artist Formerly Known as Sycamore Gap</p><p>The most photographed tree in the British Isles. Probably. As seen in the movie "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves".</p><p>The famous tree was illegally felled in September 2023 so this location just won't be the same for another few hundred years.</p><p><a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Tuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TreeTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TreeTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Treesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Treesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/TreesOfMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TreesOfMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tree</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/ThickTrunkTuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThickTrunkTuesday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/HadriansWall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HadriansWall</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Northumberland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Northumberland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/Iconic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iconic</span></a> <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a></p>
ThreeOfUs<p>I hadn’t heard about the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sycamoregap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sycamoregap</span></a> tree until it was chainsaw massacred. It certainly was a beauty. I wonder what other iconic trees exist that ought to be seen while still actually standing…</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@riggbeck" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>riggbeck</span></a></span> a message needs to be sent to failed men everywhere who want to destroy something people love just for attention. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>Prison is for THEIR protection right now....</p><p>Get your knickers in a twist over people who deserve it, like those Climate Protesters, don't give me this "poor widdle (white) boys have learned their lesson, don't be mean to them" crap </p><p>Do we honestly think they've learned their lesson? Do they seem like the men who do? </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/14/sycamore-gap-tree-duo-do-not-belong-in-prison" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/m</span><span class="invisible">ay/14/sycamore-gap-tree-duo-do-not-belong-in-prison</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a></p>
it's kat! 🇵🇸✊<p>so many thoughts about the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sycamoreGap</span></a> that i can't properly transfer them all from brain to words. <br>as a society, we need to provide comfort &amp; acceptance so that people (mainly men) don't feel the need to lash out at those who are loved &amp; valued.</p><p>all i really know is that the tree didn't fucking deserve it &amp;, in a remarkable display of resilience, is beginning to grow again. can we say the same about the men who tried to destroy it? <br>instead of harsh punitive measures, i'd prescribe:</p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>"Remanded into custody for their own protection"</p><p>Reminds me of what Ursula Le Guin thought on the nature of prisons in an Anarchist community, some crimes are so heinous you'll need to protect the criminal from the Public. </p><p>The town of Springfield did not take kindly to the statue head being cut off </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKCrime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Masculinity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Masculinity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UrsulaLeGuin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UrsulaLeGuin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TheSimpsons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheSimpsons</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p>ReformUK voters are those two Sycamore Gap wankers who "wanted some attention"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ReformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReformUK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SycamoreGap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SycamoreGap</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKPOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKPOL</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UKpolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UKpolitics</span></a></p>
TempusFugIt (DotCalm)<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sycamoregap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sycamoregap</span></a> </p><p>The evil men who cut down the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sycamoretree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sycamoretree</span></a> wanted to be famous?</p><p>Are you effing KIDDING me?!</p><p>Idiots. May their names be forgotten long before they turn to dust then.</p><p>Prison will be good too.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WTF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WTF</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trees" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trees</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/tree" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tree</span></a></p>
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