Triteleia laxa (previously Brodiaea laxa) "Queen Fabiola" is one of the unsung joys of the summer in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers [click to embiggen]
For once the forecast was correct - it has been sunny and hot all day here in North London, and I've been enjoying it pottering in the garden. Our blue rambling rose is well over, so I've tidied that up, taking off all the spindly flowered stems and tying the healthy new growth (that will produce next Spring's flush of blooms) in against the fence, and generally dead-heading and tying-in across the garden as I spotted it was needed.
Mostly, however, I have been sat on our bench just taking in all the scents and sights - the fruits of our labour, indeed! And listening to music, of course, such as this forgotten gem, courtesy of the marvellous Liza Tarbuck on BBC Radio 2:
So welcome to the world, yeah
All you late-comers
Just step onboard
I'm happy, glad you came
So welcome home again!
Sometimes I feel we must be going mad
Hello Peter, hello Paul
Saints and sinners, welcome all
Tommy Cannon, Bobby Ball
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Consider, if you will
This great big question
Unanswered still
Oh, can you spot the difference
That lies between
The colour blue
And the colour green?
Sometimes I feel we must be going mad
Little Richard, Little Nell
Willy Wonka, William Tell
Salman Rushdie, Kym Mazelle
Hello, hello, hello, hello
So welcome to the team
Oh, have you worked it out yet?
Yeah, the riddle, I mean
What's the answer?
It's plain to see
Blue is blue and it always will be
Sometimes I feel that the whole world's going mad
Mork and Mindy, Brian Hayes
Barry Humphries, Paris Grey
Little Neepsie, Chris and Do
Hello, hello, hello, hello...
Billy Corkhill, Vince Hilaire
Freddie Flintstone, Fred Astaire
Desmond Tutu, Steve and Claire
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Charlie Parker, Charlie Brown
Leslie Crowther, come on down
Mary Wilson, Di and Flo
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Sir Bufton Tufton, Jean Paul Sartre
Zippy, Bungle, Jeffrey Archer
Andre Previn and the LSO
Hello, hello, hello, hello
Hello!
Love it!
Read a helpful guide to "who's who" in the lyrics, courtesy of the remarkably-titled The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth edition.
Never heard of this band or this song. Lovely production values in the vid. Would love to hear this one redone! Just a spot on bit of sun with low humidity here... so could not ask for more. Enjoy!
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DeleteThis one would have fitted neatly into a set in Manchester's legendary Hacienda club alongside the likes of The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays, no doubt... Jx
I'd give "an Archer" to hear a live performance of that!
DeleteThe days when wit far outshone smut...
I can see you now, Dinah, waving your glow-sticks in the mosh-pit at the Hacienda on a Saturday night in 1988... Jx
DeleteWell, I haven't heard that for a LONG while. And I've just put Primal Scream's "Come Together" on now I'm in the mood.
ReplyDeleteHere's to another day of pottering in the garden!
Heavens - it's getting like a "Second Summer of Love" revival round here! If only there were any decent music around at the moment; we could declare this the "Third" one... Jx
DeleteGlad you have got some sun on your skin at last
ReplyDeleteWell done on tackling the rose
and three cheers for Liza Tarbuck. She fab, Bonkers but fab.
It's a perfect combination really - basking in the sunny garden, while listening to Liza's collection of weird and wonderful music. Jx
DeleteAs gardening tasks go, I'm rather fond of deadheading; the tidying part of it appeals to my compulsive nature and its one of those necessary jobs that's not particularly arduous so you can think about other things while you're at it.
ReplyDeleteI like it too - I may not be as compulsive as all that, but I do like to get rid of dead bits in the garden so as to get more flowers and a longer season. Now if only the eternal "slug-and-snail hunt" were so calming on the mind... Jx
DeleteToooooo hot!! Slept badly. I don't have enough windows in my house to open.
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Thankfully, our place never really gets that hot - a bugger in the winter, admittedly - with the exception of the south-facing kitchen, which borders on the tropical when the sun is high in the sky! Jx
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