Pampas grass, trainers and other urban codes

Mariella Frostrup inadvertently indicated she was into swinging. Here are five other secret signals

TV PRESENTER Mariella Frostrup found herself on the end of some unwanted advances from swingers after putting two pampas grass plants on the balcony of her flat in west London, it was reported this week. It seems that she was unaware that the plants had sexual connotations and are used as a code.

Frostrup, who lives with her husband and two children, said she only realised what she had done when a friend explained the hidden meaning over dinner. She told the BBC: "What I found out was that I had actually signposted my flat on both sides as a swingers' paradise."

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