Aphids were restricted to plants by enclosing the plants in perforated plastic bags fastened around the pot using an elastic band.
A perforated 'bread' bag was placed over each plant and secured around the base of the pot with an elastic band.
Each pot, containing an individual plant, was then covered with a 'bread' bag secured at the base round the pot with an elastic band.
The cover was fixed with an elastic band in each case.
The elastic band iteratively smoothes the plan and adapts it to moving or unexpected obstacles.
It is difficult to buy and sell goods with a currency which goes out and in like an elastic band.
Another prominent feature is the promise that there will be sold a combined cigarette case and lighter, from which the elastic band is missing.
He only sets himself a borrowing target that is about as rubbery as an elastic band.