Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sorites at the dump

The local authority send round sacks for biodegradable waste. Among other things, you’re not allowed to put logs in them, though twigs are fine. You might as well forbid heaps.

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the iii

Look, there’s visibly not twenty of them. At least Gang of Four actually had four members.

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Aggermemnon

“A very fine cake here, sent in by a Mrs Clytemnestra…”

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But plants don’t have joints!

Secateurs can be a tool for understanding your garden as well as controlling it.

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Talking rot

Everybody likes to watch stuff decompose, but getting a compost heap is one of the very few socially acceptable ways of doing it on the premises.

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for both of us

I noticed on an atlas the other day that just outside Reno there’s a town called Sparks. It didn’t say how big it was.

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