It was very clear that this was a very, very old site. There were remains of sod walls. Fishermen assumed it was an old Indian site. Bu Indians didn't use that kind of buildings and houses.
My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.
Maybe that is why kids like Dumbledore: because he is funny rather than a miserable old sod with a long white beard.
Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
What Sir Alex said cost him a bottle of wine. I had a nice bottle of red to give him for his birthday, but after what he said he can sod off.
Malta is a sod of a place.
We recommend, depending on if you have a lot of foot traffic, that you roll it with a regular sod roller every six months, but that's it.
The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
Even if we could get sod now, we couldn't mow it for a week and it would look like a jungle.
They're scraping the poor soil that was laid out there, which was not conducive to growing plants. They're putting in good soil and then laying some sod and put some plantings in.
Dave Mellor deserves a lot of credit. This isn't the sort of thing where you can just call Home Depot and put in an order. He had the sod on reserve and it was there when we put the order in.