Did I ever tell you about the three old oak trees? I’ve been meaning to for quite a while but there’s always so much to report about on the site that I just don’t seem to be able to keep up. Now for the story about the oak trees, though, which are almost seven times as old as I am. Ah me, what is a poor little ant’s life compared to that of a 200-year-old oak tree? Well anyway, there they were, three magnificent specimens standing – and happily still standing – right where the supply and waste disposal lines for the BBI were due to be laid, outside the airport site, southwest of the village of Selchow. The plan was to lay the lines using open-cut tunnelling – in other words to dig down from the top. But that would have been the end of our beautiful trees. Thanks to our folks in charge of ecological monitoring, a special procedure was devised so that the trees could be saved. This is how it worked: we drilled three metres below the oaks and put in conduits to take the lines. How about that for a star turn!

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