not quite 'orchids' but along a similar theme, I wrote this for my local forum about 6 months ago:
Another of my little adventures today which test my Spanish!
All the prunings from my garden get placed in cubic metre builders bags, bags go outside the gate, local goat farmer collects on his way past, feeds goats, returns bags over gate. System has worked well for some years.
This week I've put out 5 bags and only had 1 returned. Strange I thought. Used my last 2 bags this morning and kept fingers crossed that they would be returned promptly as I still have loads to do post calima.
Went off to chemist and as I drove back into the village the Ayuntamiento (council) open back truck that they collect large rubbish in was going in the opposite direction. Hold on, they've got my garden bags on board! Did a quick illegal u-turn and sped after the truck. Tooted and flashed to no avail. It turned out onto main road, me still in hot pursuit but behaving myself on the main road. Turned uphill (steep) towards Vallebron. Started tooting and flashing again and it eventually pulled over just before the first hairpin going up the mountain. Guys got out looking a bit annoyed. I explained in my very best Spanish that they had taken goat food, not rubbish, and I wanted it back! After a moment they burst out laughing and helped me stuff the bags into my Rav4. Another u-turn and off home. I think the other bags had been collected by the Ayuntamiento during the week, never to be seen again! Now all my bags have messages written in indelible marker to the effect that they are not rubbish!
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