The non-aussie 'Catters may have missed Bob Bolton's rather coy allusion so I, being much less coy, will spell it out for you.

Bob said: "(Oh yes ... the classic description of their diet is correct ... and its reapplication to ex-patriate Aussie blokes in Earls Court is apt.)"

Some Aussie males are described as wombats because a wombat eats roots, shoots and leaves. If you put an extra comma after the word "eats" and bear in mind that in Oz the word root means to have sexual intercourse (in a particularly macho context, i.e. it's never used, except in a joking way, in the context of intimate, warm relationships but aptly describes a one-night-stand, for example) then....

Helen