July 13th, 2009 was a big day for me. Why you ask did I win the lotto? No Did Elle McPherson invites me out to dinner? No? Did a car dealer deliver a Lamborghini Coutach to my house only to find out he had the address mixed up? No all three of these remain a pipe dream,

What happen though on July the 13th I walked into into a new Telstra phone shop and looked at the new IPhone 3G. Previously I had an old prepaid Nokia flip phone which the battery was after two years loyal service starting to lose its charge quickly. So I played around with the new IPhone & voila I took the plunge and signed up to a two year iphone contract.

Now I have a cell or mobile phone that does many things. It can play you music with the built in Ipod Log onto the Internet, takes and sends emails. tak photo's & video clips and YouTube video. Uploads YouTube video and take video clips which you can send to YouTube. Better still you can send them around the world in an sms message like I have. My sister lives in Yorkshire England and my mother in Spain. If and when I want I can send images instantly with the iPhone around the world in seconds without moving location.

Well I did my first experiment a couple of days ago and produced my first ever video clip. It is very basic. It about a 150 year old fig tree But you have to understand where I am coming from I’ve never owned or used a video camera before and only really happy snaps which Io haven't bothered taking for a while. It is the one just below here.

Planted in the 1870's and a native to India, the Banyan acquired it's name from the Hindu merchant caste, the banyans, who set up their stalls under the shelter of the expansive tree. It is renowned for it's fast growth and send down aerial roots to support the large branches. These roots eventually develop into a new trunk and so the tree spreads. One fig tree in India covers 1,5 hectares with over a thousand subsidiary trunks.

A Hindu belief was that the Brahma was turned into a Banyan Tree and his spirit lives on in these tree. Because of this belief in India they are encouraged to grow and are rarely pruned even though they can cause damage to buildings.

Below is David Attenborough sharing with us his  knowledge of the Fig Tree...