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Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
>> Ooh, the tumble weeds. ;)
> (emoticon "bafflement") Your meaning, dear sir?

It's a metaphor.  Tumbleweeds are balls of plant matter that blow around
in the desert.  If all you can hear is tumbleweeds, that's means nobody
is there to observe or respond.