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Posts archive for: 16 May, 2008
  • man attacks fruit and veg with urine!

    Yes, I didn't make that one up. I've just read a ghastly article about a man who went into not one, but TWO supermarkets today and 'sprayed' the fruit and veg stands using - wait for it - a piece of plastic tubing/rubber hose.

    Honestly, life gets more like Withnail and I every day.....;)

    [Originally I watched that film thinking the title was Witch Nail and I...]

  • Photos from my garden

    On the weekend I made the most of the lovely weather and took a few photos. Looking at them now, it's hard to believe how hot it was then. Now I am sitting here, wrapped up in a cardigan and outside it's just the usual rain and white skies....

    TOADFLAX

    This little flower, the Toadflax grows on walls, in tubs etc and is usually considered a weed. But look at it closely and it's like a miniature pansy or viola, no wonder people thought of it as a fairy flower! But the name, may of course mean something else entirely. 'Toad' could be a corruption of the germanic word 'Tod' which means death. So 'Toadstool' is sometimes thought to mean 'Tod Stuhl' i.e. the seat of death.

    Now for something a little less sinister: jasmine

    This lovely jasmine grows around the arch in my garden. When it is finished flowering, the wild roses will be just about ready to bloom.

    Our dogs are relieved the hot weather is over, because none of them liked it very much. Only Homer likes to lie in the sun so when I was taking photos he was out in the garden with me, looking photogenic...

    HOMER IN GARDEN

    Here you can see him striding purposefully towards me.... and in the following photo you can see him at his most cajoling....

    HOMER LOOKING APPEALING

    Happy days!

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