An innovative sign
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (339355)
Rockingham, Australia
April 7, 2023 7:36am CST
I like innovative, useful ideas and the photo shows one that impressed me. There were a few of these informative panels at the Museum of Country life in Turlough Park, Co. Mayo, Ireland. The board drops down inside the post when not needed and is thus protected from the weather.
This one gives information about the Sweet Chestnut tree. The sweet chestnut grows to 30 metres high and has a deeply ridged, often spirally bark. The fruits grow in groups of 2 or 3 and have very prickly spines. Inside each fruit are 2 or 3 nuts. I’ve read about roasting chestnuts in many old novels but it doesn’t happen in Australia. I don’t know if it still happens in other parts of the world. I guess it does.
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@LindaOHio (177809)
• United States
22 Apr 23
What a novel idea. We used to roast chestnuts in the oven when I was young and lived with my parents.
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@JudyEv (339355)
• Rockingham, Australia
22 Apr 23
@LindaOHio Thanks for the information. I've read about roasting chestnuts in books and of course in songs.
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@LindaOHio (177809)
• United States
22 Apr 23
@JudyEv You cut a slit in the outer skin before you roast them. We ate them! Really good!
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@rebelann (112770)
• El Paso, Texas
8 Apr 23
The commissary on Ft Bliss carries chestnuts around December but they are all glossy and smooth, mom got us some way back in the 1960s and she tried to roast them ..... I don't recall if she was successful but I know I didn't eat any of them
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@BarBaraPrz (47248)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
7 Apr 23
I spent the afternoon cutting up a fallen tree... It wasn't a chestnut tree, I think some kind of mulberry that didn't really fruit much. A vicious wind knocked it down last month.
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@BarBaraPrz (47248)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
8 Apr 23
@JudyEv I think this was supposed to "weep" too but she didn't trim it and it just shot up trying to get to the sun.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
7 Apr 23
I've read about roasting chestnuts in books but have never heard of anyone actually doing it.
That is an interesting way to protect the signs... but how did you know those were signs between the posts? I would have just thought someone's fence was broken.
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@DaddyEvil (137257)
• United States
7 Apr 23
@JudyEv Oh... yeah, I would walk past them, too.
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@Beestring (14516)
• Hong Kong
7 Apr 23
Yes, that's an innovative way to protect the sign.
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@RebeccasFarm (89832)
• Arvada, Colorado
7 Apr 23
It is very innovative thats right.
What a lovely place there
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@JudyEv (339355)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Apr 23
It is a lovely old house and there is now a big museum behind it. The family couldn't afford to keep the house and they eventually had to sell it. Thankfully, they sold it to the government or to the tourist department or somesuch.
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@FourWalls (67683)
• United States
7 Apr 23
Outstanding idea! We have so many signs around Louisville that are heavily soiled with whiskey fungus that some are barely readable.
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@wolfgirl569 (105819)
• Marion, Ohio
7 Apr 23
That's a very good way to protect the sign
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@JudyEv (339355)
• Rockingham, Australia
8 Apr 23
It stand for 'county'. Ireland is divided into a number of counties but often has a town of the same name so they tend to say Co. (County) Mayo.
@JudyEv (339355)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Apr 23
I thought they were pretty cute but then it doesn't take much to impress me.
