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On Jan 1, 2015, at 10:46 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Maybe we don't allow sexual misconduct (define term!sex is ok ) on our allotment but those fertility rites !!!!!(also those garden sheds have double beds etc !!!!!)no pathos on our allotment
> Re
> among the prohibitions are:
>> unleashed and or unlicensed dogs
>> sexual misconduct
>> possession, sale, or use of illegal drugs possession of firearms or
>> other weapons no bathing, shampooing, or washing clothes no spitting
>> urinating or defecating (except in designated restroom fixtures)
>>
>> I m sure Patrick is familiar with all these.
>>
> Well I have no statement to make :-)
> Ps urine great for composting
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bill Wootton
> Sent: 01 January 2015 06:58
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: happy new year, poetryetc!
>
> mm. So sexual misconduct is outlawed in the community garden. Stock standard sexual conduct is allowable then? Did Adam and Eve misconduct themselves I wonder?
>
> Bill
>
>
>> On 1 Jan 2015, at 10:36 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> When I left NZ in 1963, first time overseas, I was struck by the
>> pathos of England s little gardening strips where folk without their
>> own garden could get their fingers in the soil. (Patrick?)
>>
>> I expected a family garden was everyone s birthright.
>>
>> You say, Bill, no longer available , thinking of Australian towns
>> moving more towards the density of population of the old world.
>> Allotments - couldn t think of the word before.
>>
>> There s a community garden a few blocks from me along Capitol Hill.
>> The P-Patch.
>> Nine bean rows does somebody have there, and ten cabbages another.
>> The civic signs are priceless -
>>
>> among the prohibitions are:
>> unleashed and or unlicensed dogs
>> sexual misconduct
>> possession, sale, or use of illegal drugs possession of firearms or
>> other weapons no bathing, shampooing, or washing clothes no spitting
>> urinating or defecating (except in designated restroom fixtures)
>>
>> I m sure Patrick is familiar with all these.
>>
>> Max
>> cricket is not mentioned
>>
>>
>>> On Jan 1, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Bad form. It's funny isn't it, Max. You both so seem to agree with the ludicrousness of all the festivity and yet some vestige of hankering for surprise and/or ritual play lingers.
>>>
>>> Hadn't thought about that chimney lack being such a 'fretful' thing. But I suppose it could be, like another diminished thing: backyards, no longer available to go out and play in, new houses being banged up hard against fences, no room for a clothesline much less a makeshift cricket pitch.
>>>
>>> Ho ho,
>>> Bill
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 31 Dec 2014, at 4:39 pm, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Christmas Trees
>>>>
>>>> Days to go before Twelfth Night
>> etc
>>
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