The weather could have been better, mind, but I suppose they are as pleased to see heavy rain as any suburban gardener contemplating a brown lawn and a damned hosepipe ban threat...
I was rather saddened to see that, even at such a slick marketing enterprise as Kew's gift shop (Ouch! My purse...) the dreaded grocer's apostrophe rears its ugly head:
*sigh*
I can forgive a grocer's (or should that be grocers') apostrophe. I can never forgive the use of the phrase 'forward thinking'.
ReplyDeleteA tenner for - a plastic pot that 'lets you' grow indoor plants up-side-down.
ReplyDeleteVery natural.
Jesus, look at that cactus with the big, red phallus-shaped things coming out of it. That gives e an idea for a sitcom.
ReplyDeleteThe 'things' are flowers. I used to have a couple of 3 foot tall specimens of these at home many years ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleistocactus_strausii.
ReplyDeleteWhen they flowered each year, the innuendo was rife....
" I can never forgive the use of the phrase 'forward thinking'."
ReplyDeleteCorporate horror, isn't it?
"A tenner for - a plastic pot that 'lets you' grow indoor plants up-side-down."
I think someone saw the trend for upside-down tomato growers and thought 'Aha!'
"Jesus, look at that cactus with the big, red phallus-shaped things coming out of it. "
Bizarre, aren't they?
"When they flowered each year, the innuendo was rife...."
I should have taken a pic of the coco-de-mer... ;)
Don't forget that Tesco's (sic) also balls up.
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