It's a lot like drowning that way

[threemonkeys]

"Well, in our country," said Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."

"A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!".

Or to put it another way, now that the weather has improved, I am attempting the annual assault on my "garden". A few thoughts come to mind...

Gloves may well be the most useful piece of gardening equipment you can buy. However, given the number of scratches I still managed to receive yesterday, I'm not sure who is assaulting who.

Garden implies some sort of control. The green stuff around my house is more like a Darwinian zone where woody tree-like weeds (weed-like trees) compete for dominance.

A new Day of the Triffids has been shown on the BBC. You can see why that came to mind. After watching part 1, it seems pretty well done, but I can't help feeling that it isn't any sort of significant improvement over the last time it was made. But then pointless remakes are the current fashion aren't they.

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[factioncat]

My assault on the garden yesterday was repelled with a dislocated knee. Though I did manage to inflict significant casualties on the enemy before being wounded and forced to retreat.

I haven't seen the previous adaptation of Triffids, so probably worth watching for me. Let me know if part 2 keeps up the quality.

[threemonkeys]

Ouch! That is a serious fightback. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

I'll probably watch part 2 tonight so will update you then.

[threemonkeys]

Part 2 does keep up the quality - worth the bandwidth I'd say.

[factioncat]

Thanks. The knee isn't too bad; it slides back in to place itself, and is just a bit delicate for a while afterwards. It's happened quite a few times before.