Here's a picture, from Life magazine, of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor gardening in the gardens that they created at their house, La Tuilerie, at Gif-sur-Yvette:
Thursday, 26 January 2012
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THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
As I get older, that is increasingly becoming my preferred form of gardening. My gardener is as fat as a pig, I really need to trade him in for something more muscular.
ReplyDeleteA pig fat gardner suggests that he might be purloining your apples.
ReplyDeleteTwo of the most banal and depressing people that ever walked the planet - I will never understand the world's fascination with them.
ReplyDeleteYes, they were banal. The picture is here for the colour.
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