Babiana. (Click for larger view.)
This will serve nicely as my Easter greeting to all who readers care to be greeted in that way (Happy Easter!), but especially to my mum and sister who actually sent me Easter greetings cards in the post. Thank you!
I picked the lovely Babiana because (besides loving the name …this led to an ichat conversation with my sister about whether or not I’d name somebody this, to which I replied (not fully seriously) that I happily name a daughter Babiana… only to withdraw that when my sister suggested that the name would be shortened to Babs… and I was immediately put in mind of Carry On movies – I mean no offense whatsoever to any Babs in the readership, of course)…. because these were planted, partly with mum’s help when she was last visiting here, and so she gets to see how they are doing. They are in the same batch as the gladiolus plants I mentioned about two or three weeks ago, and I still have yet to get to tell you the story about my getting these bulbs, which is sort of interesting, since it involves dinosaurs.
Later.
Happy Easter. (Why don’t we ever say Merry Easter?)
-cvj
Merry Easter (and why not?!). As ever, a lovely photo from your garden. Mmm, choosing names. Something that has been on my mind a great deal lately. When my daughter was a baby, she was given a pink (and I mean pink) teddy bear dressed in a frilly white dress with a clockwork mechanism which plays the tune of ‘Dr Zhivago’. The best possible taste. We decided the bear had to be called Babs (likewise, no offence meant to anyone of that name.) Anyway, when she was old enough to express an opinion on this, my daughter decided that a far better name would be ‘Spam’ which I have to say shows early potential for comic genius!