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Posted by Crusty (U4783799) on Tuesday, 6th March 2007
Please can some one explain to me what a Ha-Ha is/or was?
A ha-ha is a sort of moat without the water.Used for keeping animals in or out of an area without the need for fencing.Someone else will come along shortly and post a link for you,I'm sure.
Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:33:23 GMT, In reply to: wombatsnose
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There's a Ha-Ha Road in Woolwich, isn't there - near the Barracks...?
yes there is
, in reply to message 5.
Posted by posh_scouse_pinnedwithpride (U2514024) on Wednesday, 7th March 2007
Here you are.
, in reply to message 6.
Posted by CliveHorribinlives (U7800426) on Friday, 16th March 2007
There`s one outside Kew Gardens. Invading armies fall into them and the defender`s say "ha ha". Mind you Bill Bailey always said that you should attack a castle via the Gift Shop. Nigel merely used a 212st century battering ram to prove why lower Loxley needed one
I heard myfive year old child recently say
'Ha, Ha'. I'm not too sure where it's roots are.
Nelson Munce: The Simpsons
Hurrah for all this haha info. I have now followed the wikipedia link someone helpfully posted and apparently there is even (wait for it) such a thing as a Double Sided haha. I know, thrilling isn't it? but by this point the haha seems to be taking up more room than the garden itself. so the garden looks great from a window, but is, in fact useless.
Anyway, who agrees with me that we need to end TA's two most useless storylines by having a tie-in between the haha and Eddie and Lilian's drinking lives? As you can't see the haha until you are nearly there, and it is a slope (you can see where I am going with this...) all we need is a dark night and a bottle of home-brewed cider and, as they say, 'hilarity ensues'.
[As this idea is horrible I expect it will be appearing soon, in which case copyright Radionoush, all rights reserved etc]
So is a ha-ha a kind of moat? - or is a moat something different...?
Not really, Rick. Moats tend to be symmetrical and designed to hold water; a Ha-Ha is a wall /descending/ sharply from a garden, where the ground at the lower side then rises slowly until it's at the same height as the garden.
From the inside you have an uninterrupted view of the countryside, but a sheep approaching from the other side will walk down the gentle slope to be met with a high wall.
Thanks, PPPP, so it's tick-shaped then?
More like an old floppy disk box, open
\___|
Indeed.
Thanks, Both - or a school coat hook, on its side....
(or have coat hooks gone the way of bike sheds and been replace by drama studios and such-like....?)
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 15:09 GMT, in reply to Rick-ap-Yard in message 16
No coat hooks these days: kids have to carry their belongings around all day so the school has no responsibility for allegations of stolen stuff. most provide a locker with key [for a deposit] but nobody wants to leave a wet jacket stuffed into a locker all day with books and dry PE kit. Recipe for a stinky mess.
Thanks, Petal - I had a feeling that the cloak rooms had gone the same way as the bike sheds when I returned to my old school for a visit! Nothing communal or collective these days, then - no wonder we're in such a state!
Sat, 31 Mar 2007 16:23 GMT, in reply to Rick-ap-Yard in message 18
Offspring's school does have bike sheds - the local council has an excellent system of bike lanes and well-sited bike racks around town so it's officially encouraged - but I think they have cctv cameras there. Probably the best place to catch any number of transactions on film.
Thanks Petal - maybe all is not lost, then...!
(or have coat hooks gone the way of bike sheds and been replace by drama studios and such-like....?)Â
Daughter's school still has cloakroom with named pegs. Mind you, smaller children are not allowed to bring anything of value into school and older ones have to leave things like mobile phones with the teachers for safe keeping during the day (possibly also to prevent continuous texting in class??)
dondy
PS Sorry, this has nothing to do with hahas. There's one at Blickling Hall in Norfolk
, in reply to message 21.
Posted by blue_rememberedhills (U4927627) on Monday, 2nd April 2007
And at Temple Newsam near Leeds.
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