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Something quirky!

(21 Posts)
Oxon70 Sat 12-May-12 14:04:40

I got this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK0N9aaXRGY
this morning via a mostly American mailinglist I'm on

And I remembered this
www.roundaboutsofbritain.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=214
as well from a few years back but I still notice pretty round gardens in the road all over the place....

Are these silly?

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 14:15:27

These have inspired me. There is a hole in the pavement that I pass whenever I walk to the shop. it is 9 inches across and four inches deep, and I have informed the road maintenance department (Clarence) three times. Each time they promise action, then cover it with a temporary piece of curling plywood that gets kicked aside. I shall fill it with compost and plant something in it.

jeni Sat 12-May-12 15:13:02

An oak tree?

Bags Sat 12-May-12 15:15:19

jeni, smile

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 15:36:55

I would if I had one - just a seedling but it might send a message to Clarence.

jeni Sat 12-May-12 15:38:26

Fill it with nuts?

Bags Sat 12-May-12 15:38:54

I could probably get you a Quercus pedunculata seedling, elegran. wink

Bags Sat 12-May-12 15:40:05

Brazil nuts are hard to open, well.... what we call Brazil nuts. Aren't they from the inside of the nut, technically.

Heads googlewards....

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 15:48:37

Bags If I had a quercus pedunculatus I would plant it in my garden - not waste it on Clarence. Used to have two at our Border cottage (though they might have been the other sort) and they got together and dropped three little seedlings, which I would have loved to dig up up and bring here, but decided the garden was probably a bit small and towny for them. The neighbours would have objected to their lawns being shadowed.

Oxon70 Sat 12-May-12 15:49:12

Elegran that's lovely - tell us what you do!

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 15:53:00

Do with what, Oxon ?

jeni Sat 12-May-12 15:55:25

I have one at the bottom of my garden. It's the one dd planted as an acorn to bonsai. Now at least12 ft tall!

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 15:56:14

Oh I see, about the 'ole. Yes, I will keep you posted. Not sure what I will do yet. I was planning another acid email to Clarence, but I might just sneak out after dark and make a mini-garden and then sit back and see what happens. The lollipop lady patrols hat corner so I can enlist her to report. she is up in arms too, waiting for a child to put a foot down the 'ole and break a leg.

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 15:57:27

That corner, not hat corner. She does wear an 'at though, so may be it is an 'at corner.

Oxon70 Sat 12-May-12 16:42:34

Who was looking for a better 'ole in the 40s? Dunno about 'ats.

shysal Sat 12-May-12 16:54:58

Can't wait to find a suitable hole to make into a garden!

jeni Sat 12-May-12 16:56:26

A fox?

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 17:17:32

If you knows of a better 'ole go to it? Or something like that. I shall google it.

Elegran Sat 12-May-12 17:19:18

www.world-war-pictures.com/war-artist-bruce-bairnsfather.htm

jeni Sat 12-May-12 17:20:08

Yes that's it.

Oxon70 Sun 13-May-12 07:15:51

Is anyone else a roundabout appreciator?

Love the 'magic roundabout' in Swindon - can't believe that it was actually built and it works...not pretty though