laughter and merriment
Friday, August 18, 2006
A good week: finished my lecturing and got the notes all edited and pretty and up on the University network; also knocked off the Alan Bennett biog update and sent that off too. Thank heavens for standby days at nursery! Even managed a brisky windy walk this afternoon up through the Bot Gardens to go and get another Philip Roth from the Vic library: am updating him next. Strolling back downhill, I noticed that some of the daffs are out already, and the white magnolia's beginning to show itself too; the purple stuff's been out for weeks. Which leads me to wonder: why for interior decorating purposes does 'magnolia' designate dingy off-white? Today I saw one magnolia tree with grey branches at the end of which were huge deep purple tulips. Others bore flowers that were a vivid heather colour. When I was young I used to think of magnolias as 'vulture trees' finding them slightly sinister because of the way the flowers looked like they were lurking up there, bunched over, waiting.
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