On 17/11/04 6:21 pm, in article , "Mike Lyle"
wrote:

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Why is it that otherwise almost-rational people, such as me, dislike
the things? Is it just the way they're planted, do you think? I
suspect I could like them in certain situations, but can't visualize.

Mike.


I think from my pov it's because they're all-too-often planted in small
gardens in suburban locations and so, in my mind, are forever associated
with that. But that said, I just don't find anything beautiful in them at
all, not one single thing and I've felt like that since I was a child. I
don't think I've ever expressed my dislike to my children but my younger
daughter has just bought a house in this village and has 'inherited' two
Pampas grass and wants to wage all-out war on them! She might be able to
get one out but the other is in her back garden, slap up against the fence
on one side and a wall above a terrace on the other and with no access for a
min-digger, unless we take the farmer's fence down. Hmmmmm....... ;-))
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