<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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. 

Heh.... It's possible I read the book before the "flick" came out (no
way would I have been allowed to see such a movie at age 10, but my
grandad was buying me some strange job-lots of books from second-hand
stalls). 

> 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

Hmmmmmm.... I wonder why our landlord hasn't heard of such things--we
have a young jungle growing up around the aircon units at the back. The
tacky new houses on that plot behind us also have similar problems, but
that could simply be due to the total stinginess of the builders. 

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