Another busy ol' day in the extensive gardens here at Dolores Delargo Towers today, dear reader! Every plant I brought back from Essex [all those pictured yesterday, plus ten new or replacement fuchsias - rooted cuttings from our fave nursery B & HM Baker at Bourne Brook Nurseries] has now been potted up in new compost, and I also dug out and potted individually loads of free ferns that had self-seeded in several big pots up and down the garden, as well as other pottering jobs that needed attending to. Five hours later, I finally packed everything away. Tomorrow is another day...
Back to today, however, and among a raft of ill-assorted names such as John Waters, Lenin, Jack Nicholson, George Cole [whose centenary is is], J. Robert Oppenheimer, Glen Campbell, Aaron Spelling, Yehudi Menuhin, Charles Mingus, Dame Ethel Smyth, Bettie Page, Henry Fielding, Kathleen Ferrier, Vladimir Nabokov, Peter Frampton, Donald Tusk and - ahem - Amber Heard, it's the 70th birthday today of the legendary producer/remixer Mr Arthur Baker!
His is an impressive back-catalogue of classics, so, without further ado, here are just a few of them:
I can practically smell the Aramis!
