Val Theroux

Lovely Tree Dept: Since 2008, the 64-year-old retired nurse from Kamloops, B.C., has been travelling once a year to Britain to hold workshops in reiki, a type of holistic therapy. But during her trips, she never fails to make time to hug her deciduous friend she met by chance four years ago in Brockenhurst, in the New Forest, Hampshire, according to The Star. It is a lovely, lovely tree that I feel very close to I feel as if it speaks to my heart, said the Australian-born Theroux, who could hardly stop chuckling when she learned that her love affair even made the Daily Mail of London, which called the tree her trunk a burnin love. Val Theroux says just because she loves an oak tree in England doesn t mean she s a few acorns short of a bushel. I do love the tree, but I don t know about being in love with the tree, said the mother of two who was reached by the Toronto Star in Dublin, Ireland. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.