{"id":124634,"date":"2022-02-20T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/moles-cats-and-runaway-roses-allan-jenkins\/"},"modified":"2022-02-20T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T07:03:20","slug":"moles-cats-and-runaway-roses-allan-jenkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/moles-cats-and-runaway-roses-allan-jenkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Moles, cats and runaway roses | Allan Jenkins"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe moles have been at their destructive best, a feral ginger tom comes visiting and the roses need to be tamedWe arrive in Denmark to the mystery of molehills. An explosion of earth mounds picked out in the car headlights like a compound of pyramids. Henri is not happy. They are mobile, the moles, moving house from one corner of the meadow to another. An ancient Aztec city of soil.The nice neighbour is obsessed with them. He has an annual petanque tournament and is lined-lawn crazy. For him it is war. I don\u2019t exactly welcome them, but figure they\u2019re more resident than me. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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