Re: Soprile Wednesday

On Fri, 5 Jun 2009 08:57:56 +0100, Kate Brown
<elvira@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Ralph B wrote
On Jun 4, 12:11 am, Harry <flapdra...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(b) Unless it was actually broken up and buried (and why bother?), how
on earth do the SWs picture such a huge chunk of scrap decaying and
actually being swallowed up by the earth so completely as to be
forgotten about and never referred to again, in a mere six or seven
decades??  That kind of thing takes thousands of years.  They should
have found something from Joe's great-grandfather's time, financially
worthless and of only minor historical interest.

To be fair to the LSWs (Bod preserve me) thems were funny times. I
remember a couple of stories from way back when of people burying an
old car in the garden rather than taking it to a scrapyard.

See http://engineweb.co.uk/odds_and_ends.htm which also backs me up
with "Whilst talking to his neighbour my friend was told that he
vaguely remembered the car being buried there. Apparently it was
common practice years ago as the scrap value was virtually nothing."

It still goes on today - although the current bunch are, of course,
too lazy to actually dig:
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1131585/The-Ford-discovery-Counc
il-workers-Escort-buried-garden.html

It's not inconceivable, IMHO, that Grandpa Grundy would have buried
the steam-engine. Especially as he would have had access to
agricultural digging machinery. Perhaps he was being hassled by the
landlord to clear up the eyesore, and did so in a typically pragmatic
Grundyist fashion.

Give the LSWs a break. Although, of course, TBMG.

The people who had our house before us had a habit of burying odd bits
of dead car in the garden. Nobody knew quite why, but when Ralph first
moved in he had to remove a surprisingly large amount, and we still come
across strips of bumper in the rockery. There's a persistent yellow
patch in the lawn which I suspect to be due to something of the sort,
but it would take a lot of digging to get at it.

A scooter enthusiast who lived near my mother had half-buried dead
Lambrettas in the front garden and, with the seats removed, was using
them as planters.

Nick O
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real e-mail is nickodell (at) bigfoot (dot) com
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