Ridicule is nothing to be scared of

Another gorgeous day in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers, pottering - I've potted up twelve (hopefully) yellow Aquilegias and planted out, into what laughingly passes as our "flower-bed", some Verbena rigida that were languishing unhappily in a window-box/planter - and I feel like I may have caught the sun...

I think it's now "Pimms O'Clock"!

"Pimm's O'Clock" - Prince Charming [2008 Pimm's ad]

Hold the Pimms, I'll have the gin...

Thoughts for the Day

Alexander Armstrong - London Pride [Noël Coward]

London Pride has been handed down to us,
London Pride is a flower that's free.
London Pride means our own dear town to us,
And our pride it forever will be.
Grey city,
Stubbornly implanted,
Taken so for granted
For a thousand years.
Stay, city,
Smokily enchanted,
Cradle of our memories,
Of our hopes and fears.

[the news]