Stapling bread onto trees.

I read at the weekend that a piece of stapled bread was eaten by a dog and the dog had to have emergency , expensive surgery.

Surely the Druid custom was to pour drink of some local variety onto the roots of the trees?

I believe trees were customarily given a bowl of cider at Christmas in the cider producing areas of the UK up to the middle of the previous century.

Whatever goes on in these peoples minds?!
Madness.

If they have nothing better to do with their bread why not donate to a food bank, I'm sure many people would appreciate that.

Wassailing is the custom of visiting orchards, drinking copious amounts of cider and reciting incantations to the trees to ensure a good crop of apples. It has nothing to do with stapling, or fixing in any other way, bread to trees.

I speak as someone raised in cider making country!

Never heard of it.

i'm speechless.

The staples won't do the trees any good.

This is ruinous to trees - bark damage will eventually kill them. What idiots - and what a waste of bread.

I haven't even heard of this idiotic thing. Don't understand the point of it, sounds like it causes more harm than good.

Some people here who want to kill trees to get a better view from their houses ( usually rich beachside houses) hammer copper nails into the trunk.

What an utterly absurd idea where did it come from and what is its purpose I can t see the point it is ridiculous

Talking of people posting weird things on Social Media, I came across one on Facebook where people pretend to be ants in an ant colony! You couldn’t make it up!

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I wonder if it’s the same folk who hang plastic bags of dog poo on trees

God that pisses me off. Why pick it up if you’re gonna fling it into a tree encased in plastic??

GreenGran78 you just reminded me that my 3yr old GD calls all ants Gerard! she loves them

What an odd thing to do. There's some weirdos about.

On one of my European coach tours, I remember passing a village, where they hung rags on the trees. Can’t remember where...sorry