Spiky Blue Things

Can anyone tell me what these spiky blue things are? I took this photo in the Brockwell Park Community Garden recently and,  coming from the other side of the world where plants are altogether different, I cannot make them out.  Not alliums, not eryngiums, not teasels, although they have the spikiness of teasels.  They’re not [...]

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Back. Oh Yes I Am….

So Vivh was right  – I have been hiding under a duvet for the last few weeks. And then I was working on a really big project, and then I was struck down with a horrible cold and sore throat, and am only emerging now from a fug of tissues, Vitamin C supplements, chicken soup [...]

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Gertrude Seduces the Boilerman

‘I’ve turned yer boiler down to 52 degress, yeah. Should save you a bit of money,’ said Omar, helpful representitive of British Gas, one morning this week.  There’d been no hot water for several days – parts, a fan, a flue (presumably not from Mexico), the storm, he said.
He pointed at dials and buttons, outlined [...]

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