lasted more than three days, with thousands of people and so many carriages that they had to put them all in a field the other side of the meadow, i was coming up to my 200th birthday. after about 20 years, the biggest parties stopped, but they still had big one day parties, sometimes two or three times a year.
then, one year just as i’d dropped all my leaves again, a huge storm came. we had bad winds every winter, but i was strong enough for them not to worry me. this was something else though. people called it a hurricane. quite a few of the trees around the meadow 