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from "Arthur" contains these words:

My wife ("Spider" in this group) went to the local garden centre today to
spend the gift vouchers she received for Chistmas. After browsing the
outside rows of shrubs, she carried her choices to the shop only to find
that they had closed up, locked the gates and gone home at 2.30pm. The
premises are surrounded with high fences, spikes and barbed wire.
Fortunately she had her mobile phone and was able to call for help. The
local police couldn't contact the keyholder so they called out the fire
brigade with their ladders to get her over the back wall.
And she had to leave the plants behind ...

If the GC stocked leather gloves, secateurs and pruning saws, she
could have liberated herself and all the plants:~}.

Janet.