10 English words for a wooded area

1. Forest
2. Wood(s)
3. Grove
4. Spinney
5. Coppice or copse
6. Hurst
7. Thicket
8. Brake
9. Boscage
10. Chaparral (US)

Midweek Meeting October 21 2015

Michal Klajban, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

Unsurprisingly we were a few less this week than the week before. We took another tree and looked at it - this time the olive tree, focusing on Zechariah 4, Matthew 25:1-12 and Romans 11. We sang "Give me oil in my lamp" which I just about got away with. Again, we were fairly interactive, which I think is good but I was overlong once again and probably didn't leave enough time for prayer. Such things involve a lifetime of fine tuning. We used to finish at 9.30 pm but I've reined back to 9.15 pm, which is good but it means I need to manage the time better. Do you know why some olives are green and some black? I didn't until yesterday. How about green grapes and red? I've known that for years.

Famous Trees

I'm not sure how many famous trees there are in the world but my wife and I had our pictures taken with two of them this week. Both are looking rather decrepit (watch it!) but have some claim at least to antiquity and fame. The first is the apple tree in the orchard at Woolsthorpe Manor which has some claim to have helped Newton thinking about gravity. (The original tree did go down but a new one grew in its place). The second is the Major oak in Sherwood Forest, which appears to be over a thousand years old so was around in Robin Hood's day.

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