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Published: October 14th 2007
View From My Desk
Nearly ready to move in.First day riding my bike to work and all went well. Didn't get a puncture and didn't get my bike stolen. Woohoo! Traffic is pretty bad, buses are the worst as they hug the curb and make it hard to pass them. Get there is 23 minutes.
Tuesday 22nd May Some moron thought it was a good idea to put a lock on the locker I was using at work, without first checking to see if anything was in it! After security couldn't help I decided to try my hand at amateur lock picking. Took me about 5 minutes to work out the code 2548 .
Wednesday 23rd May Went down after work to the "Smoke Rooms", a relaxed local pub, to watch the European Cup Final between Milan and Liverpool. Much to the disgust of the locals Milan won 2-1.
Saturday 26th May Chelsea Flower Show!
I had to work for a few hours this morning as it is crazily busy at the moment, doing about 60 hours a week but I knocked off at about 11am and tubed it over to Chelsea for the world famous
Have Some Monitors!
Traders are a greedy bunch. Chelsea Flower Show. There were plenty of people there, it had been running all week but the Saturday would be the most popular day and was also the day when all the exhibitors packed up and sold all of the flowers in their display. There was a about 100 or so small stalls selling pictures, garden tools, souvenirs and other flowery paraphernalia all the way down the main strip, which led onto a grassy area where people were picnicking to the tunes of a small brass band. Em had already been there an hour or 2 by the time I found her by the Bull Ring Entrance. Some intricately handmade fantasmical garden sculptures of elves, goblins and orcs etc were setup in one display and Em discovered the likeness between the creator and the characters was more than coincidence. Hey, who needs a model? At a few thousand pounds for some of the moderately sized characters they certainly weren't cheap but if I were rich I would definitely have an orc under my stalk...or an elf on my shelf...or a goblin.......maybe not a goblin.
We wandered around outside and checked out all the gardens on display that vie each
Thomas Lookalike
At the Chelsea Flower Show year for the bronze, silver and gold awards. This year the best show gardens were, amongst others, the Cancer Research UK for their garden with hedges, paths and benches interlinked with 5 strands of curved oak ribbon and the Bradstone space garden which was designed as a future template for gardenising Mars. Other gardens seemed to have thousands of flowers of every imaginable colour and must have taken an age to put together. We asked one proud displayer of the amount of time involved and he said it took 20 guys, 14 days at 15 hours per day to arrange!
Inside the Pavilion, exhibits of flowers grouped together by species were everywhere and it would have been easy to spend a whole day just in here. From Bonsai plants some of which were hundreds of years old to every carnivorous plant you could imagine to Roses and Tulips of every shade, there were about 100 displays in total. At 4pm all the flowers on display went up for sale as this was the last day of the show and people were snapping up bargains left, right and centre. After a few hours walking around here we headed over to
Fantasy Garden Statues
These were awesome, if only I could afford ~ £3000 a pop. the beer garden (the best kind of garden!) and had a drink just as the rain started to pour down. Lucky we were ready to head off anyway. The tube home never looked so green.
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