On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 02:55:10 +0100, Andy
wrote:

Has any ever done anything really stupid concerning plants?

The anecdote about the boy with the match and a coniferous hedge I
posted in a thread much further ahead reminded me of something else
which I thought I should dutifully post in this old thread.

I was the boy with the match of course, but anyway, I was a boarder
and my parents were expatriates in Malaya (as it then was).

The same school had flower beds which you could adopt and tender if
you had the inclination. Whilst on my summer hols (in Malaya) I
decided I would take back some seeds of a plant I rather took a shine
to. I believe I planted them the following Spring and I don't remember
having much success with them.

However when us kiddies all went back to school for the autumn term
that year we found the grounds crawling with men in space suits
wielding spray guns and yes, I believe it was that very same hedge.

At the assembly we were informed rather solemnly that there had been
an infestation of a particularly nasty bug which had never before been
found in the Western Hemisphere.

I think they're a little stricter at Customs now.

Hussein


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