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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Without wanting to sound like I’m flexing, I was talking to my gardener about getting some pampas grass for the garden, when she started giggling. When I asked what was so funny, she said “Don’t you know? That’s what swingers used to put in their gardens.”
I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve heard the keys in the bowl one, but has anyone else heard about a connection between pampas grass and swingers? First time I’ve heard about it and I’m not exactly new to this... |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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That’s interesting: my parents too. Now I’m beginning to wonder if there’s something they haven’t told me?! Better still, does that make swinging genetic?  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"I am a professional gardener,would not recommend, best left I Argentina on the pampas plains
Horrible stuff
Research other grasses "
Haha. Thanks for the tip. Probably another reason for people to burn it  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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"Most gardens in Cap d'Agde have pampas grass ,
Even my grand parents , though they were definitely not swingers "
@Cap: Now you mention it. Completely forgot about that!! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"We’ve put some at the end of our drive, more of an in joke than anything else "
Us too ... makes me smirk when we drive in
It is a thing yes I believe so x
When we moved into this house there was some in the garden already ... a sweet little old lady owned the property before us (sweet? maybe not then ) ... we potted and kept some - it takes over otherwise I think xx |
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By *ady LickWoman
over a year ago
Northampton Somewhere |
There was some in our front garden when we moved in, no point putting in the back garden is there? 
I like it, the flowers are unusual, I suppose if you were so inclined you could use them.as a tickle stick!
It was a thing though, they didn't call it the swinging sixties for nothing! |
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"Even my grand parents , though they were definitely not swingers
You really cannot know for sure though right!"
They didn't buy their house there till their late 60's so I doubt it though they bought it because several of their neighbours bought second homes there ... Perhaps they all had orgies in the alps in the winter then off to the Cap in the summer |
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"Most gardens in Cap d'Agde have pampas grass ,
Even my grand parents , though they were definitely not swingers
@Cap: Now you mention it. Completely forgot about that!! "
No just in gardens either , it's everywhere ... In the middle of roundabouts amongst vines ..instead of flowers and shrubs |
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By *aro7Man
over a year ago
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"Ive also heard of the hat on the parcel shelf in the back of a car? Anyone else heard that? "
Hat on the parcel shelf is the old bill, as is a little sticker of a rats face done in black |
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By *irldnCouple
over a year ago
Brighton |
"Even my grand parents , though they were definitely not swingers
You really cannot know for sure though right!
They didn't buy their house there till their late 60's so I doubt it though they bought it because several of their neighbours bought second homes there ... Perhaps they all had orgies in the alps in the winter then off to the Cap in the summer "
A fair few in their 60s on FAB!!!
Am kidding you of course but swinging was common (in middle/upper classes) in 1920s and made a come back in late 50s/60s. Our grandparents might have been right amongst it LOL
Weirdly I think it would cool to know my grandparents were naughty! Am pretty certain my parents were - they regularly went to parties at Eureka in late 70s early 80s claiming to be “naturists” lol. |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
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"Most gardens in Cap d'Agde have pampas grass ,
Even my grand parents , though they were definitely not swingers
@Cap: Now you mention it. Completely forgot about that!!
No just in gardens either , it's everywhere ... In the middle of roundabouts amongst vines ..instead of flowers and shrubs "
My mind must have been elsewhere at the time! |
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