The Magical Mystery Shoe Tree Of Bucks
COME see the branches of a tree on the busy A40 adorned with tens of shoes, many in pairs, right and left hanging from their tied laces.
There are smart brogues, trendy trainers and boots in brown, which should never be brown in town.
The Bush Tree, as it has come to be known, lies between High Wycombe and Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire.
The mystery of the Bush Tree was addressed by The Chilterns Woodlands Project, which secured in excess £265,000 to gt to the root (geddit?) of the problem. So says the Telegraph.
Rachel Sanderson, co-ordinator of the Special Trees Woodland Project tells us:
“The lottery money to the Chilterns Woodlands Project was for a four-and-a-half year project to collect data and carry out research on special trees in the area. But in the case of this specific tree nobody knows quite why shoes are put on it, or quite when it started. It’s one of those things, it’s an absolute mystery.”
It is, of course, nothing of the sort. Old Mr Anorak is well schooled in mysteries, and believes it is either the work of a “janitor” in a ghoulish mask, objects sent from the skies by “Heaven Ponies” or else the French.
But the area does now have a landmark, and others regions may soon find strange objects handing from trees.
One adoslecent in Basildon, an Armani Bloggs, recalls seeing a tree with “spooky” red and green roundish objects hanging from the branches and many “well smashed ones” ones by the base.
The area is now one of special scientific interest that schools are free to study and write a story on for GCSE media studies…
Posted: 8th, January 2009 | In: Reviews Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
