In message op.wnqjqnqlytk5n5@i7-940, Lieutenant Scott
writes
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 23:25:09 -0000, geoff wrote:

In message o.uk, Dave
Liquorice writes
On Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:52:29 +0000, geoff wrote:

I'm not saying you can't set fire to it, but mature bamboo is very
dense and difficult to set fire to

Is it not hollow?

Yeah - just like steel scaffolding poles

No, it's stacked sealed cylinders not a tube.

Have none of you lot disected a bit of bamboo garden cane?


In my garden in Indonesia, I have bamboo wide enough to make pint pots
from

Hehehe, you remind me of the boy who told me "in Pakistan we can buy
parrots for 50 pence".

Strange - I thought that even you can't be so stupid as to confuse a
bird with a bamboo stalk - I was obviously wrong



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geoff