Er, seen in Waitrose! Yes, Waitrose, purveyors of Prince Charles’s own organic produce to the middle classes. Perhaps it’s to offset bourgeois droop, as the effects of too much Chateau Lynch-Bages are doubtless known.
Also explains why Lloyd George was known as an “old goat”.
Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit.
Translation: Whatever you may dream, fate has other plans in store.
Thomas à Kempis, quoted by Simon Winchester in the New York Times.
Seen on a woodland walk this afternoon.
Grotesque* garden ‘ornaments’. Taken using the intriguing Pro HDR App on the iPhone.
* Which reminds me of what Sydney Smith famously said upon coming on Mrs Grote wearing a turban. “Now I know the meaning of grotesque”.
