Another one bites the dust?

The beautiful big oak tree outside our village shops is no more! Apparently it was ‘diseased’. There seems to be a lot of this about at the moment.

I tried to count the rings in the stump a few times without success. A local man aged 85 remembers climbing it when he was little, though, and someone else had an old photo with it in so it must have been over a hundred years old. It was certainly a landmark and will be greatly missed.