On 9 Jul 2003 08:17:54 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote:

In article ,
Warwick Dumas wrote:

I'd just resigned myself to spending another 100 pounds on granite
blocks on
a garden I still might move away from this year, when I heard this thing
about granite mining destroying tigers' habitats. I always thought they
were
just blowing up bits of Wiltshire or something! Durr, like there's any
granite in Wiltshire. They sell rockery stone at B&Q but they don't seem
very reliable about it, and I'm not sure of the source there either, and
ideally at this point I need something I can work with with more easily
than
jagged rocks.

The mind boggles. As half of the north and west is granite territory,
importing the stuff is just plain insane. Many farmers would be happy
for people to take away granite boulders for nothing!


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

That's what I did - Ok it's Austria, but I don't see why farmers in the UK
should be much different.
They often pile up the "findlings" in a field somewhere and leave them for
ever, overgrowm with elderberry bushes. If I spot a rock I like, I ask the
farmer if I can have a couple. I've not been refused yet.

Tim.