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rosalind

7th August 2015, 09:23
Stolons are underground shoots, so the plant keeps popping up everywhere. The bamboo spread under a twelve foot (?feet) wide patio area, and the shoots pushed up the heavy slabs even after I had dug up the parent plant!
But I can see bamboo would make a good camouflage and BR couldn't say the branches were dangerous!
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rossim

7th August 2015, 09:47
There are two types of bamboo, clumping and running.
I hope it is the former that I have planted next to my patio!
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rusty

7th August 2015, 10:11
Elle, grand morning here.
I am going looking for pillows today.
ASDA pillows, politely, are not quite what I expected!
Elle, it is your grandsons' holiday and they will be excited to be staying at Auld Granny's for a few days.
Let them be boys!
And they will love camping!
Grab some sausages and your hairdryer and off you pop to the woods with a babbling brook running close by.
When you go for water, always have a look upstream in case there may be a dead sheep in the water.
It would put a taste to the tea.
Happened to me a few times in the Highlands.
Water purification tablets would be sensible.
I have a few television programmes stored and am trying to work my way through them. One a day!
Today's is "Danny Boy. The Ballad that Bewitched the World".
So, in looking for pillows and Danny Boy that should fill the morning.
Enjoy the farm!

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chrise

7th August 2015, 10:35
Hi rusty
You might not find this clue from today's Guardian difficult, then!

21 Behind — behind London it's sung out loud? (8)
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rusty

7th August 2015, 10:54
Chris, well done!
You are as sharp as a tack this morning!
I think that will baffle a few.
Though, in my case, I would leave London out of it!
It is not by Puck by any chance?
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chrise

7th August 2015, 10:58
No, it's Paul.
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jazzgirl

7th August 2015, 11:45
I like that Guardian clue. I have often fallen off the short steps when pruning the gum tree and landed on my Londonderry Air !
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rusty

7th August 2015, 12:51
With me it would be my Derry Air.
It is often referred to to as Derry/Londonderry in the media in Ireland, which the locals have changed to Stroke City!
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jazzgirl

7th August 2015, 12:58
It think it was the late Gerry Anderson who first gave it the name "Stroke city"
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rusty

7th August 2015, 14:46
He was certainly involved, Jazzgir!
It had got a bit tedious listening to the News etc with constant references to Derry/Londonderry.
I have just watched the programme and I enjoyed it.
John McCormack is my favourite singing it, with Elvis a close second.
And....the lyrics were written by an Englishman!
A solicitor. Fred Eatherly, I think he was called.
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