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Jane Ransom19/4/04 8:46

In article , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes
and lose instead of
loose,

Now remind me . . . . which is the one where you misplace something and
which is the one where your knickers fall down??

If you don't know the difference by now, it's already too late. ;-)
--

Sacha
(remove the weeds to email me)

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...

The only other effective method is a good fence, buried at least a
foot into the ground to limit tunnelling.

You don't need to bury it. All you need to do is to fold it outwards and
peg it down. Rabbits always try to begin digging at an obstacle.

Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30 years,
on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this. But you are quite
right, they do, don't they!

Ta muchly.

In article , Jane Ransom
writes
In article , Kay Easton
writes

Now if only people would use 'fazed' not 'phased' and 'bated' rather
than 'baited' breath ...

Thank you, Kay )
I really thought it was baited - as in a trap waiting to go
off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

same root as 'abated' AFAIK - ie paused - holding your breath in
anticipation

I always knew there must have been a reason I failed the 11+ twice (

Nah. that's more to do with inadequacies of the 11 plus.


--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

In article , Kay Easton
writes

same root as 'abated' AFAIK - ie paused - holding your breath in
anticipation

Aye, holding something in preparation . . . . as in 'baited'
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
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but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

In article , Robert E A
Harvey writes
Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30 years,
on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this. But you are quite
right, they do, don't they!

Except recently the bunnies trying to get into the veg plot of an
acquaintance have figured out that they have to start burrowing a couple
of feet away to get under the horizontal mesh. It has taken them about
20 years, but they have finally figured it out (((((((((((
--
Jane Ransom in Lancaster.
I won't respond to private emails that are on topic for urg
but if you need to email me for any other reason, put ransoms
at jandg dot demon dot co dot uk where you see

Jane Ransom wrote:
In article , Robert
E A Harvey writes
Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30
years, on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this. But you are
quite right, they do, don't they!

Except recently the bunnies trying to get into the veg plot of an
acquaintance have figured out that they have to start burrowing a
couple of feet away to get under the horizontal mesh. It has taken
them about 20 years, but they have finally figured it out

so you are saying I'm 2/3rds less bright than a rabbit?

Jane Ransom wrote:
In article , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
and lose instead of
loose,

Now remind me . . . . which is the one where you misplace something
and which is the one where your knickers fall down??

I think they are closely related

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...
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from Kay Easton contains these words:
In article , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes

That's a moot point

Rusty, I love you! That's the first time in years that I've seen someone
spell 'moot' correctly (rather than the meaningless 'mute')

Kay, I love you too!

Now if only people would use 'fazed' not 'phased' and 'bated' rather
than 'baited' breath ...

And you're instead of your (where applicable), and lose instead of
loose, and eschew the greengrocers' apostrophe.......

You darlings really ought to join me and the other fanatics at
alt.usage.english: I've led such a sheltered life that I didn't even
*know* some people tried to spell it "mute". It must be Hell out
there!

Mike.

Victoria Clare wrote in message .240.20...
(Mike Lyle) wrote in
om:

The Romans introduced them, along with ground elder, big snails and a
lot of other things, and the Normans enclosed areas to farm rabbits.

I don't know what changed things, but I suspect that enough escaped to
lower the value of kept rabbits to the uneconomic and unnecessary.

As usual, it was a combination of farming practices and employment and
leisure patterns, rather than the behaviour of the animals themselves.

Are you sure about that?
Early rabbit-keepers considered their rabbits to be delicate hothouse
creatures that needed a lot of looking after.

They may simply have been wrong, of course, but given the breeding speed
and adaptability of rabbits, it seems likely that some degree of adaption
to the colder wetter climate took place, in the same way that modern
rabbits have developed a level of resistance to myxomatosis.

I'm sure that's right; but it clearly didn't take them a thousand
years to adapt. The rabbit population "explosion" is very much a
matter of human perceptions.

Mike.

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 11:23:12 +0100, "Robert E A Harvey"
wrote:

~Jane Ransom wrote:
~ In article , Robert
~ E A Harvey writes
~ Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30
~ years, on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this. But you are
~ quite right, they do, don't they!
~
~ Except recently the bunnies trying to get into the veg plot of an
~ acquaintance have figured out that they have to start burrowing a
~ couple of feet away to get under the horizontal mesh. It has taken
~ them about 20 years, but they have finally figured it out
~
~so you are saying I'm 2/3rds less bright than a rabbit?
~

Well there's one thing - it's appropriate having you commenting on
this thread - your surname *is* Harvey ....

:-)


--
jane

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone,
you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

Please remove onmaps from replies, thanks!

In article , Mike Lyle
writes
Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message
. ..
The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:
In article , Jaques d'Alltrades
writes

That's a moot point

Rusty, I love you! That's the first time in years that I've seen someone
spell 'moot' correctly (rather than the meaningless 'mute')

Kay, I love you too!

Now if only people would use 'fazed' not 'phased' and 'bated' rather
than 'baited' breath ...

And you're instead of your (where applicable), and lose instead of
loose, and eschew the greengrocers' apostrophe.......

You darlings really ought to join me and the other fanatics at
alt.usage.english: I've led such a sheltered life that I didn't even
*know* some people tried to spell it "mute". It must be Hell out
there!

They even *pronounce* it 'mute'!

--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

"jane" wrote in message
...
Well there's one thing - it's appropriate having you commenting on
this thread - your surname *is* Harvey ....

I'm sure that he's just a figment of your imagination.
--
Nick Wagg

On 19 Apr 2004 13:41:03 -0700, (Robert E A
Harvey) wrote:

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in message ...

The only other effective method is a good fence, buried at least a
foot into the ground to limit tunnelling.

You don't need to bury it. All you need to do is to fold it outwards and
peg it down. Rabbits always try to begin digging at an obstacle.

Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30 years,
on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this. But you are quite
right, they do, don't they!

Ta muchly.

Nor does it need to be very high. We do fences around our new
plantings about 18ins high in 2in mesh. Theoretically a baby bun could
squeeze through that and any self respecting rabbit could hop over it
but they don't........yet.

Rod

Weed my email address to reply
http://website.lineone.net/~rodcraddock/index.html

The message
from (Robert E A Harvey) contains these words:

Jaques d'Alltrades wrote in
message ...

The only other effective method is a good fence, buried at least a
foot into the ground to limit tunnelling.

You don't need to bury it. All you need to do is to fold it outwards and
peg it down. Rabbits always try to begin digging at an obstacle.

Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30 years,
on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this.

It's the way I've always done it. Set up the unrolled netting against
the support-fence, allowing for a turn-out of 9" or so. Use a metre
length of board, pressed horizontally in the "corner", to make a neat
right-angled to the turn-out, all along the netting. Fix the netting to
its support along the top. Walk along the turn-out on the ground,
pressing it into any bumps and dips on the ground surface with your
feet.

Cut 9" lengths of fencing wire, turn the top inch at right angles like
a tent peg, and hammer one right into the ground every two feet or so
all along the netting turn-out.

Janet.

The message
from Jane Ransom contains these words:

In article , Robert E A
Harvey writes
Amazing what you learn, ain't it. I bin fending off bunnies 30 years,
on & off, and never heard of anyone doing this. But you are quite
right, they do, don't they!

Except recently the bunnies trying to get into the veg plot of an
acquaintance have figured out that they have to start burrowing a couple
of feet away to get under the horizontal mesh. It has taken them about
20 years, but they have finally figured it out (((((((((((

Far more likely, the people either left gaps around the gateposts in
the fence, or under the gate, or they leave the gate open sometimes.

Janet