Sorry, Hasbeen, can't help but be amused at the thought of you turning up to the annual 2012 OLO social, resplendent in your white flares....somehow I don't think you'd have trouble fighting off the controlling women (aside from the fact that women in general are a bit thin on the ground around here)...the one's that turned up would be too busy falling about laughing.

That's not fair, Poirot, you know that most of the blokes here would gladly get tangled up in a barb-wire fence if you were in the next paddock ;)

Yours ever,

Joe

Thank you Joe.

I vote that we continue this thread indefinitely...it's rather good for my ego : )

Poirot, love Rumpole, he is as you know an Aussie.
However who talks of her indoors.
And can I see your proof of age card, look a bit young to me.
Been to market day and out planting, bird of Paradise, taking a few out for good lady next door.
We all know the controllers male and female.
Any one else notice they are more often that not wrong?
Tell the one who must obey totally wrong things.

Poirot, if I tried to turn up in those pants I doubt I'd get there. If they did not cut off the blood circulation, & kill me before I left the house, they would be so far from meeting in front to be done up, the cops would have arrested me for indecent exposure.

Belly watch those bird of paradise mate! I planted one at the back of the shed, beside the water tank, about 15 years ago. It now fills a 3 meter by 3 meter space, & the base is so thick, we are frightened to go near it. Who knows what is hiding in there.

Still, that shed is near the road, & when it is in full bloom, with a couple of dozen heads, I've seen cars stop, & people photograph the thing, so it's far from an eye saw.

Yes hasbeen more fool me, I planted about twenty then ten large ones.
Nice and shady under the bottle brush.
And swamp Lilly's along within every elephant ears type plant I could find.
Jungle but cool and welcoming.
Iris and day Lilly's number near 100 and still planting.
My only car access is a lane but front is looking good now the lawn is mowed.
I plan to cut a lot down, dig up the roots, just leave a few, and mulch every thing .
Swamp Lilly's thrive, most can not get the seeds to grow, but as any palm half in half out of the ground and they race away.