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[miltiades]

Stroumbi The Great please if you don't mind !!
As a 6 year old climbing up a fig tree after a papillaros , the branch broke and catapulted my self and my mate to the ground.I was not injured but my little mate almost lost his life having had a branch of the tree embedded in his little head. He survived .

[Oracle]

Stroumbi The Great please if you don't mind !!
As a 6 year old climbing up a fig tree after a papillaros , the branch broke and catapulted my self and my mate to the ground.I was not injured but my little mate almost lost his life having had a branch of the tree embedded in his little head. He survived .

What a healthy activity!

Kids just do not climb trees anymore.

I remember climbing the Fig tree, which we still have, when I used to come home from school, and then we had to have a swim so that we could get all the itchy, sticky latex it exudes, off our skin.

No long-lasting effects to your friend I hope

[roseandchan]

are you not ment to prune or keep your fig trees at a height where you can pic the figs? would that not be sensible. my schnauzer loves figs, but eats far too many.

[Oracle]

are you not ment to prune or keep your fig trees at a height where you can pic the figs? would that not be sensible. my schnauzer loves figs, but eats far too many.

I don't think our fig tree has ever been pruned and has certainly been neglected for over 40 years, apart from being picked most September months. It hasn't grown that tall .... I don't know what their natural height limit is ... but it is quite sprawling now too.

I would be wary of snakes now too, as it's in the middle of a field, but that never bothered me when I was young.

[miltiades]

Stroumbi The Great please if you don't mind !!
As a 6 year old climbing up a fig tree after a papillaros , the branch broke and catapulted my self and my mate to the ground.I was not injured but my little mate almost lost his life having had a branch of the tree embedded in his little head. He survived .

What a healthy activity!

Kids just do not climb trees anymore.

I remember climbing the Fig tree, which we still have, when I used to come home from school, and then we had to have a swim so that we could get all the itchy, sticky latex it exudes, off our skin.

No long-lasting effects to your friend I hope

As the earthquake struck Stroumbi on September 10th 1953 , my older brother and my self rushed out of our collapsing house and tried to get our sister and younger brother out of their by now collapsed bedroom , we frantically begun shouting out their names and digging at the ruins. We heard a faint voice , which turned out to be my sister who was well buried in the ruins but saved by the collapse of the bed head which acted as a support for the rubble . My younger brother still missing , he shared a bedroom with sister , we begun screaming out his name then we heard a voice from above !! He had climbed the fig tree in our house in search of figs !!

As for my little friend Yiorgos , alas we lost all contact after the earthquake . I was told that his parents had emigrated to Australia .

[Oracle]

Stroumbi The Great please if you don't mind !!
As a 6 year old climbing up a fig tree after a papillaros , the branch broke and catapulted my self and my mate to the ground.I was not injured but my little mate almost lost his life having had a branch of the tree embedded in his little head. He survived .

What a healthy activity!

Kids just do not climb trees anymore.

I remember climbing the Fig tree, which we still have, when I used to come home from school, and then we had to have a swim so that we could get all the itchy, sticky latex it exudes, off our skin.

No long-lasting effects to your friend I hope

As the earthquake struck Stroumbi on September 10th 1953 , my older brother and my self rushed out of our collapsing house and tried to get our sister and younger brother out of their by now collapsed bedroom , we frantically begun shouting out their names and digging at the ruins. We heard a faint voice , which turned out to be my sister who was well buried in the ruins but saved by the collapse of the bed head which acted as a support for the rubble . My younger brother still missing , he shared a bedroom with sister , we begun screaming out his name then we heard a voice from above !! He had climbed the fig tree in our house in search of figs !!

As for my little friend Yiorgos , alas we lost all contact after the earthquake . I was told that his parents had emigrated to Australia .

Gosh would being up a tree normally be a safer place during an Earthquake ... that would be interesting to find out

Imagine if Yiorgos turned out to be Paphitis' dad

[miltiades]

I wondered indeed if Paphitis was little Yiorgos's offspring but rejected the thought remembering how sensible , cute and polite little Yiorgos was , a complete contrast to the one calling himself Paphitis wouldn't you say O ?

As far as the level of safety that a tree can offer someone in the event of an earthquake , I would say 100 %protection provided the tree was mature and deep rooted and stood away from a building hovering above. So an investment on a tree house is prudent I would suggest !

[Oracle]

I wondered indeed if Paphitis was little Yiorgos's offspring but rejected the thought remembering how sensible , cute and polite little Yiorgos was , a complete contrast to the one calling himself Paphitis wouldn't you say O ?

As far as the level of safety that a tree can offer someone in the event of an earthquake , I would say 100 %protection provided the tree was mature and deep rooted and stood away from a building hovering above. So an investment on a tree house is prudent I would suggest !

Well look ye here:

Bamboo Houses Stand up to Earthquakes
It is called the "poor people's timber" and even in China it is not accepted as a modern building material. But bamboo, like lumber, makes a light, flexible house that is much better than "modern" materials at surviving earthquakes. Now International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) is actively promoting it as a replacement.

"So far, massive construction or reconstruction means concrete structures in China, and bamboo is little known for this [building on a large scale],” says Shayam Paudel, INBAR’s director of bamboo housing programs, in the Christian Science Monitor. Unlike the "Tofu" concrete structures that collapsed and killed thousands of kids in substandard buildings, bamboo makes a much simpler structure.

You are warned to seek open ground during an Earthquake, since people are mostly crushed by falling objects, but unless the ground opened up directly beneath a tree, their flexibility would mean they were more likely to withstand the shaking then rigid structures.

.... now there's a lesson for all of us Milty