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"Nellie's Tree (also known as the Love Tree) near Aberford, West Yorkshire is a group of three beech trees that have been grafted together in the shape on a letter "N". This arrangement of the trees is a result of a local man trying to impress his girlfriend Nellie around 1920. It has since become locally famous and is the site of numerous marriage proposals. The trees won the 2018 English and British Tree of the Year awards and came ninth in the 2019 European Tree of the Year awards. History Detail of the "N" for Nellie (2018 photograph) Though referred to as "the tree" in the singular form it is actually three separate beech trees that have been grafted together. Around 1920 a young miner and keen amateur gardener, Vic Stead, resided in Garforth. He regularly made the trip to Aberford by foot along the "Fly-line", a disused colliery railway, to see his girlfriend Nellie who worked there as a dairy maid. Near to Aberford Stead found three beech saplings growing in a row and grafted the central tree onto the two adjacent ones in a diagonal fashion to form the shape of the capital letter "N". This was intended as a gesture of his love for Nellie and as a means of impressing her. It was apparently successful in this regard as the couple later married. The tree is known as the "Love Tree" locally and has become a popular site for marriage proposals. Writer Richard Mabey has described it as "one of the most touching twentieth- century landmark trees" in his 1996 work Flora Britannica and The Woodland Trust have called it a "northern gem". Nellie's Tree has become the symbol of the Save Parlington Action Group, a local campaign against development of the woodland. Tree of the Year Vic and Nellie have both since died but their grandson nominated the tree into the Woodland Trust's Tree of the Year competition in 2018. He had become aware of the tree during walks in the woods with his grandparents who pointed it out and told the story behind it. The tree was selected by a panel of experts to be represented on the 10-strong shortlist put to the public vote. The tree won the English round of the competition, garnering 2,351 votes - the most of any tree in the four national competitions – and received a £1000 tree care grant from the People's Postcode Lottery. As a result of winning the English competition the tree was put forwards with the other national winners into the British competition, run in conjunction with the BBC's The One Show. The tree won the vote and was named British Tree of the Year. The tree came ninth in the 2019 European Tree of the Year awards. References Individual trees in England History of West Yorkshire Individual beech trees Environment of West Yorkshire "
"Meathead is a double album by Captain Sensible, released in September 1995 by Humbug Records. It is Sensible's fifth studio solo album and contains 32 songs across two and a half hours. The album includes studio performances by Sensible's band - featuring ex-Damned bassist Paul Gray, keyboardist Malcolm Dixon and drummer Garrie Dreadful - as well as demo recordings and instrumentals recorded mostly by Sensible on his own. Background Sensible writes in the album's liner notes: "If The Universe of Geoffrey Brown was my Sgt. Pepper, then this collection of goodies is probably The White Album.... warts and all!" Meathead was recorded in a "full on experimentation mode", where "nothing was off limits", according to Sensible. He described the album as "a mixed bag of stuff including studio performances by my band, cosmic instrumentals, weird (but genuine) clips from radio and admittedly some dodgy demos that have a certain gnarled charm (ie.... too lazy to re-record)." "Freedom" and "Pasties" were originally released in 1991 on the 12" and CD- single versions of the Damned's "Fun Factory" single. Critical reception In a review for AllMusic, Richie Unterberger called Meathead "a sprawling mess of a record", saying that Sensible "seems to be taking a Zappa-like approach to his work with his combination of so many elements: bouncy London pop, Pink Floydish spacy electronics, found sound bites from TV shows, grating bulldozer guitar riffs, dainty orchestral violins, and silly lyrics about space travel. Often he seems to want to shock or jolt the listener out of complacency with repeated monster guitar licks or spoken dialogue; if the goal is to irritate, he succeeds all too well ... The listener ends up being not so much dazzled as exhausted, or worse, fed up with his apparent value of cocky experimentation over cogent, humane statements." Track listing Personnel Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. ;Musicians *Captain Sensible - vocals, guitar, keyboards *Malcolm Dixon - keyboards, guitar, vocals, lead vocals ("Crazy Fish", "Love Thing", "Inventing the Wheel", "Aliens ? We Are the Aliens", "Stabilizer Jam") *Paul Gray - bass *Garrie Dreadful - drums ;Additional musicians *Howlin' Wilf - harmonica ("Freedom") *M.M. McGhee - drums ("Business Trip to Saturn") *Nial - bass ("Business Trip to Saturn") *Martin Newell - guitar ("Business Trip to Saturn") *Graham - samples, programming ("Business Trip to Saturn") *Andrew Bor - piano ("Zarbo Nebula") *Rachel Bor - cello ("Plastic Arcade"), vocals ("The Last Train") *Eric Woods - performer, arrangement ("The Snow Queen (Excerpt)") References 1995 albums Captain Sensible albums "
"ZLIB-FM is a variety hits radio station in Clarence Town, Bahamas. External links (via the Web Archive) Radio stations in the Bahamas Adult hits radio stations "