"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article .com,
"Mike Lyle" writes:
|
| Yes, it was a stupid bit of spam. But I do wish people wouldn't
express
| themselves in knee-jerk anti-American terms. I welcome our occasional
| visits from American gardeners: they're often very instructive. But
| then, I'm Australian, so I don't have an inferiority complex about the
| larger colony.

And, of course, I am a real colonial :-)

Gad, Carruthers! A white man can't work in this heat! Must get meself
some more altitude, alcohol, and adultery.

Anyway, even at 58, I don't let grass grow on my yard ....

As an English-usage freak, I'm all for that zero-tolerance approach;
but in fact our "back yard" in Oz _did_ have grass, among other things.

Back yards in england are usually concreted over, so growing grass could be
a bit of a problem!

Alan


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Mike.