Louise Bremner wrote:
> <declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> > Must admit it has been a long time since I last saw the Day of the
> > Triffids. Even so, these are ugly bastards.
>
> I never saw the film, but read the book at an impressionable age.

Well there is ignorance personified (by me). I didn't even know there
was a book preceding the flick. Same shit happened with the Great
Gatsby. A hair styling product big in Japan developed by some Irish
Fitzgerald fella.

> Not everyone.... The owners of the empty plots behind our house hire a
> couple of guys with weedwackers every couple of months or so during the
> summer<snip>

Think I need one of those, or more weed matting. This matting stuff is
working very well. (so far)
http://www.declan.tv/gardening_misadventures/side_of_house.html