[LINK] OT - delicate question

Richard Chirgwin rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au
Sun Apr 10 18:05:29 AEST 2011


On 10/04/11 5:29 PM, David Lochrin wrote:
> On Friday 8 April 2011 11:04, Karl Auer wrote:
>> Aside from that, it appears that the material used was geographically
>> determined - in some areas with broad soft leaved plants available,
>> these were used ("tobacco plant", "elephant ears", "lamb's ears"), also
>> some soft barks (birch) and sometimes dry leaf litter, sawdust, even
>> fine sand - rub it on, dust it off.
> A cousin of mine was a Surveyor before he retired.  I remember his recounting that he went on a job somewhere with a recently arrived Engish "chainman" (?) who wasn't familiar with the local flora.  The chainman disappeared into the bushes when nature called, and a little while later came out rather quickly in some distress; the "broad soft leaved plant" he'd used was stinging nettle!
"Chainman" is right. A chain is a linear measure ... 22 yards.

RC
> Cheers!
> David
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