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11 May 2008 |

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Once ensconced in a country garden my acquired wisdom allowed me to reason: to consider why we think cutting grass to be such a worthwhile process.

Some use mowers for this questionable task, others cajole flocks of obedient sheep - but I could detect no classical logicality and therefore could not bring myself to chop these innocent fronds. Did Plato or Aristotle bother to mow their lawns? Did they heck!

Better move to another branch of science - sharpish!

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jude iron maiden

11 May 2008, 00:03

what ........... no legs !!!!!
have you let those pesky sheep nibble away at your walking wotnots ?
ps I'm the first

Chris Phillips: Chad won't lend me his sheep Jude

Richard Trim from Leicester UK

11 May 2008, 06:29

This looks like paradise for a hobo ....

''On a summer day in the month of May a burly bum came hiking
Down a shady lane through the sugar cane, he was looking for his liking.
As he roamed along he sang a song of the land of milk and honey
Where a bum can stay for many a day, and he won't need any money

Oh the buzzin' of the bees in the cigarette trees near the soda water fountain,
At the lemonade springs where the bluebird sings on the Big Rock Candy Mountains.

richard

Chris Phillips: Wasn't that Burl Ives - Richard?

Bill Phillips from Droitwich

11 May 2008, 07:34

It's an interesting thought imagining historical figures cutting their grass. Imagine Churchill at Blenheim. Clementine looks out of the window and says " About time you got off your backside Winnie and cut the grass!"

Chris Phillips: Chartwell surely! In any case that's a place I've always wanted to visit. Seen signs to it from the M25. But there again I've seen signs to many places from the M25...

Richard Standley from France

11 May 2008, 09:39

Can you imagine if Chad sheep had been there Chris? No grass, no thoughts!

Chris Phillips: No brain!

Blackdog from Home Sweet Home

11 May 2008, 09:41

You look like you have stepped into a Ken Russell film of DH Lawrence (must be the hat). You can imagine what Lawrence thought the long grass was for.

PS having spent two hours mowing my patch yesterday I wonder aboit the point too - social pressure I guess ;o)

Chris Phillips: That Lawrence - ee 'ad a dirty mind Mike!

tim from leeds uk

11 May 2008, 10:15

indian jones springs to mind Chris

maybe a movie role matey.

Chris Phillips: Ha maybe!

anniedog from Great Britain (UK)

11 May 2008, 10:29

Bring back the meadow, I say. Anyway, Aristotle would have had to do his with a scythe - I don't think the Greeks had invented lawn mowers then, but I could be wrong!
Ingrid

Chris Phillips: I think you're right Ingrid

Ellie from England

11 May 2008, 12:33

Yep! Indiana Jones, and he wouldn't have bothered with a lawnmower, he'd have clipped the grass with his bull whip!
Can't imagine Aristotle needing a lawnmower, is there a lot of grass in his place?

Chris Phillips: Er...I'm not sure I know much about Aristotle's garden actually Ellie. Perhaps I was foolish to raise the subject in the first place

vintage from Australia

11 May 2008, 13:49

In Australia tall grass can mean snakes "Beware"

Chris Phillips: That settles it: I'm never going into the garden again!

jude iron maiden

11 May 2008, 14:10

yes vintage, there is definitely a snake-in-the-grass !

Chris Phillips: And who would that be I wonder?

chad from In front of a computer

11 May 2008, 15:33

Would Plato or Aristotle mow their lawns if there were cheap flymo's available at their local D-I-Y? We shall never know. I think cutting grass is bad because, It is work.

Chris Phillips: No wonder those sheep of yours are so fat!

Astrid from SUNNY TROPICAL TEXEL...

11 May 2008, 18:49

Where is the train......you indeed look like indiana jones...

Chris Phillips: Everybody says I look like him Astrid - but I don't feel like him at all. Glad to hear the sun is shining in Texel. Now just remember to have a full & hearty breakfast before you go out to the beach each morning!

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John from Norwich, England

11 May 2008, 21:08

Are you a member of the hellawi tribe. They are very short and have to jump up and down shouting "we're the hellawi...we're the hellawi" Great shot.. hope you find the peace in the grass ! John

Chris Phillips: Thank you John: I hope so too!

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