I recall a typically entertaining speech from Dennis Skinner MP at a Durham Miners' Gala in which he mentioned pampas grass.
Deriding the rich, he spoke of their big houses with drives 'in which the pampas grass grows six feet high'.
So around here, it's a sign of the capitalist ruling class.
A bit like large balls...on your gateposts.
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Bit of luck it might draw BBD out of the woodwork ! He probably has a forest...
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I just thought Pampas grass meant that your gardening tastes were frozen in the seventies. Horrible stuff.
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I suspect the blonde growly one wants to remind everyone that she is still fairly nubile (all the neighbours coming round and saying How about it then?)
It's a curious modern craze, the swinger thing. Not quite the same as its sixties predecessor, let it all hang out, we're free man, etc., but just as likely to encourage emotional numbness and damage relationships even when both parties agree to it. Or so it looks to me.
Perhaps it's just a matter of the middle classes aping their betters. I know I've posted this Belloc favourite before, but it is apposite here (the stanza in brackets especially). From memory:
Garden Party
The rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls-Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud and strident voices
(The husbands and the wives
Of this select society
Lead independent lives
Of infinite variety).
The poor arrived in Fords
Whose features they resembled;
They laughed to see so many lords
And ladies all assembled.
The people in between
Looked underdone and harassed,
And out of place and mean,
And horribly embarrassed.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Wed 30 Nov 11 at 18:15
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Funny that is from an Aus paper. Pampas is banned out there as a pest plant, not allowed in the country and destroyed on site if found growing.
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I picked it up on PM tonight, this was the only reference I could find on-line. Beats the story in on page three of the local rag around here. 50p down the drain. Cutting edge news eh ?
www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2011/11/30/12-hr-rescue-of-pregnant-cat-from-bin-turns-out-to-be-stuffed-toy-55578-29866946/
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>>and bin operators Tyddyn Môn.<<
if i`ve translated that correctly to English are the bin operators "Tidyin Men"?
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No - Something like "Anglesey Smallholding" "Môn" = Mona - Anglesey's name from Roman times.
Last edited by: R.P. on Wed 30 Nov 11 at 19:00
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>> No - Something like "Anglesey Smallholding" "Môn" = Mona - Anglesey's name from Roman times.
I thought the Roman name for Anglesey was Merda Cavus?
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We're talking Brythoneg Enisis Mona not Roman - different languages.
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I was told it had to be pink pampas grass, but then why should I know?
A quick google suggests it's an urban myth. Still doesn't stop the associative thought though:
uk.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070514061301AA8oNvT
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I had a pampas in the garden once. But one of the dogs would use it as a bed by getting right in the middle. Eventually he broke it all down until it was nothing more than a stump. Then other dogs started to pee on it all the time, so that was the end of the pampas.
Never had anyone knocking on the door looking for a bit of extra marital though.
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Not any more. Some may remember in May I asked for advice on removing the stuff that came with our house after it raised weals all over my shin. Well, it's done - in half a day by two nice men with a little digger. We were impressed enough to think we'll have them back for the fencing job that needs doing behind the house.
Anyway, the warm autumn has given the grass seed we sowed in its place the chance to get established, so the front of the house looks a million times better. No swinging visitors, though - although most of our neighbours are septuagenarian bedroom-hoarders whose swinging days, one suspects, were some time ago.
}:---)
Last edited by: VxFan on Fri 2 Dec 11 at 01:05
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First time I've ever heard of Pampas Grass ever signifying anything. As to it being illegal to grow, weed control comes under State legislation and, to a certain extent, is administered by Local Councils. Pampas grass is a noxious weed under the Noxious Weeds Act 1993 in many areas of New South Wales. In Sydney, it is considered a major environmental weed by many local councils and is subject to intensive control campaigns. Notting Hill is in Victoria - maybe they allow Pampas Grass in certain circumstances.
www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/232248/Pampas-grass.pdf
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Anyone got any Pampas grass ? - Iffy
