Hutch

Thanks for neatly illustrating my point - blanket statements with regard a country larger than mainland Europe just make you look (being kind), ermm, naive.

Deancm

It was meant to be a tongue in cheek blanket statement. You take things so literally sometimes.

But if we want to get factual about it we could say that two thirds of australia doesn't even have any grass because it is desert.

On top of that I could say that the grass in Australia isn't greener than the UK due to the chlorophyll content.

Hutch

All grasses have similar 'content' of chlorophyll - the slime-green colour of English grass is down to the excessive volume of nitrates in the soil, laid down over centuries of settlement and intensive farming.

WillBlack

Some grass which grows widely and commonly through many named deserts of Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tr..._grassland.jpg

Not a grass to assauage a pining Pom; commonly called spinifex for the reason that it is vexatiously spiny, especially when desiccated under a strong dry season sun to straw yellow.

Deancm

Yes, I know. Just take my facetious comments with a pinch of salt.

Deancm

Spinifex eh... I was waiting for someone to mention that. But you're right it's not the type assuage a pining pom.

ronan_in_Oz

You guys know so much about grass

Deancm

Look forward to learning all about grass when you get to Australia. It's a national pastime.

ronan_in_Oz

I'm not surprised

Robw4

2 weeks later, opinion still stands

Deancm

This thread is still going???

Hutch

ERmmm ... yea, thanks in no small part to you?

WillBlack

Be aware that should the pining start, the focus of such anxiety can become the shade or texture of green:

Because these green hills are not highland hills
Or the island hills, the're not my land's hills
And fair as these green foreign hills may be
They are not the hills of home.

CPW

Are you a Scottish soldier, Will?

WillBlack

Nup.