TheBanyanTree: Wherein peter falls down a hole

[LaLinda]

I'm not sure I understand it, now. I need more tea.

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L

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019, 9:52 AM Mike Pingleton <pingleto at gmail.com wrote:

> All's well that ends well?
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> My mother would have called that 'a layover to catch meddlers'.  A favorite
> phrase of hers in my childhood, which I didn't understand, which probably
> was her intention.
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> Mike
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> On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 10:38 PM peter macinnis <
> petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au>
> wrote:
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> > I have been gardening this past week, subduing a wild jungle of trees
> > and weeds, and today's task was to trim the dead fronds on a  Canary
> > Island palm in the garden. I grew up in a street lined with these, and I
> > know that they have vicious spines, but I also know how to deal with
> > them. I cut the fronds with loppers, and then chopped off the end 60 cm
> > or 2 feet so all the spines are now in a bin. Later, I will cut off the
> > leaves from the stalks and compost them
> >
> > For some time, there has been a deep depression in the garden near the
> > palm, about a metre, three feet deep, and I have recently been filling
> > it with all the fallen leaves, converting it into a compost pit.  Today,
> > as I was trimming the dead fronds on that palm, I stepped onto/into the
> > depression a couple of times, and the third time I did, the bottom of
> > the hole gave way, and my leg plunged in.  Clearly, the leaves had been
> > plugging the hole in an unsupported way.
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> > It was a bit like stepping into really deep snow as I did once in
> > Norway, so I knew what to do: bend the knee and drop back to land on the
> > thigh, so I only go knee-deep, and then scramble out. When I got out and
> > started poking palm fronds in there, some of them went down to a depth
> > of 3 metres, ten feet.
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> > It could have been nasty, but it wasn't. Just curious, because the
> > geology here doesn't support sink holes.
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> > Enquiries have been set in train, but I have ruled out white rabbits.
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> > peter
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