but I describe myself as 'a person'.

In Bolton there's just one old knarled tree in Moss Bank Park. Gandalf's bedroom overlooked it and both me and my dad, independently, elected it as our favourite tree in a moderately-recent Red Rose Forest campaign.

There were auroras that night, with more expected on the 31st - http://science.nasa.gov/spaceweather/aurora/images2004/22jan04/Packer1.jpg