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Old 29-04-2005, 01:04 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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"Mike Lyle" writes:
|
| Hell, Nick, you still don't get it, do you? You seem to think
| gardening's about growing plants, and fun, and prehistoric shit like
| that. I know for a fact that when a bump appeared on your lawn you
| _didn't_ hire a rotovator, you _didn't_ buy fifty tons of topsoil,
| and you _didn't_ returf the lot. I don't like to accuse a man on
| circumstantial evidence, but I bet you even grow flowers from
| _seeds_, for heaven's sake! Get it into your head that proper modern
| gardening's about spending money, and making lots of noise, or the
| Conspicuous Consumption Police will come and cart you away to the
| Techno-Bucks Re-education Centre before you infect anybody else with
| your destructive notions.
|
| I'm only telling you for your own good.

Thanks for the warning. That bump appears about the time that
I was visited by a salesman who insisted that I bought an all
electronic dibber, with an easy-to-use Windows XP interface.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.