Last Sunday a friend and I went on an adventure outside Nottingham. We managed to get up early in the morning and get the Sherwood Arrow to Sherwood Forrest (ironic, I know). Here we hoped to see the Major Oak, a tree that is over 800 year old. I found the concept of the tree fascinating; people have built structures to hold the branches up since Edwardian times, which creates a man-made, geometric structure around this wise old tree. The juxtaposition here is a lovely one, especially in our world today, where we destroy thousands of acres of rainforest, but want to preserve a signal tree.