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.
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