Stapling bread onto trees.

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

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

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

Grannynannywanny

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??

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!

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

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.

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

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

The staples won't do the trees any good.

i'm speechless.

Never heard of it.

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!

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.

Whatever goes on in these peoples minds?!
Madness.

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.

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.

Perhaps they could try this instead: www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=309153364143892&set=a.301107071615188

LynneH

It’s wassailing, an ancient Druid custom to bless the trees and encourage next year’s harvest

I thought that wassailing was singing.

Better than what was happening here, someone during the night was going around cutting perfectly good trees down, done over several nights, think the police have caught him now though

If it's waissailing, there would be no staples in those days. Dangerous to animals, birds and humans. Last year our local woods became fairy door city. Every tree was basically vandalised with people nailing or screwing wooden pictures some covered in glitter and the further up the tree the bigger the picture. I did measure some,8" x 10". Utter madness.

In my area people put their dog's poo into bags and hang that on trees. Yuck!

It’s wassailing, an ancient Druid custom to bless the trees and encourage next year’s harvest

No reason mentioned Mollygo. It seems to be yet another daft fad that wouldn’t exist if there was no social media where participants can post/like/brag after doing it.

I only came across it today as some dog owners found their pets’ paws damaged by bits of metal ie staples, presumably fallen off the trees.