On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:09:05 +0100, "jbm" wrote:


"lloyd" wrote in message
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Noticed a couple of holes appeared in the grass this week, about the
size of an empty toilet roll (2inch?) the first one I run the hose
down and it never filled ( A Chaplin sketch comes to mind lol) then I
placed a brick over it. The second I just put some old bricks, cement
down it. Next day the cement had been taken out!!

What could possibly be making them and why? I presume rats though
somewhat small maybe! Why no soil spoil either? If a mole needs to
make such big hills, how come this creature doesn't?

Not too fussed as I only cut my grass to make the lawn tidy, rather
than look like a cricket pitch. Just curious.

You don't say where you live.

The Fens...lots of ditches and dykes here.

Since the water from your hose disappeared,
and then the cement, it sounds like a bottomless pit is opening up under
your garden.

I must confess I did think that as I surveyed my plot.

First thing that crossed my mind was old mine workings
shrinking.

Reclaimed marshland.

Since you aren't interested in cricket, you could always take up
golf. :-)

Excellent idea. That could allow me to use up the old Labour flags I
no longer need.

I like a bit of rough