Etherieal, Poisonous Beauty

Phew - What a Scorcher!

Sat out in the shade, reading Graham Masterton's Plague, with Monty (doing his best to keep down the dandelions). Had to move from the comfy chair in the garden to hard seat on the patio after a while though as, when I nipped inside to grab a diet coke, our furry girl had nabbed my seat.

The Gardens a-calling

Happy weekend guys. Enjoy the sunshine. The garden is calling me, so I will be spending mine enjoying the plants, listening the birdies chirruping and generally chilling in the shade with a book. Not sure which one yet. Sometimes, though increasingly less often, I quite like being old.

Oh, and, and before I head out, I can see from our kitchen window, that these Asiatic lillies have reclact the top spit of Plant of the Moment. Stunning colours.

Bats out of Hell by Guy N Smith

 I got my hands on this great American version of Guy N Smith's Bats out of Hell novel today.

I do have a few other editions of this great book, but I had no choice but to add to the above to their number, especially when I saw it advertised for less than a tenner, which included the postage from across the Atlantic!

Echinacea

This Echinacea pips the cherry- chocolate Cosmos flowering behind it to claim the current plant of the moment in our magickal garden.

The Best Office Views in Swansea?

Reflections

I love the reflections I see around this section of my work's office:

Avalon 2 | Day 42/100

 Starting work on the Chalice Well Gardens section of Avalon 2

1st Beach Visit for a While

As one is on the doorstep of the other, I rewarded myself to a visit to the beach after my hospital appointment this afternoon.

Crossing the park, I bumped into these new residents too: 

High Dive

 

It's that time of year again

 Red Arrow's annual salute:

Dr Terror's House of Horrors by John Burke

I absolutely love this Amicus film. And I absolutely can't believe how long this book has sat, unread, on my bookshelves.

From Beyond the Grave by R Chetwynd-Hayes

As I'm putting together an Amicus shelf, I thought I'd start sharing the items that will make them up. Having started with this and this, here's the movie tie-in book for For Beyond the Grave:

 

The only disappointed with this book is that only one of the stories in the portmanteau film actually appears in this short story collection, which isn't really a novelisation at all :(

#caturday

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 I have been trying to grow this particular plant for nearly 15 years now. It roots very easily but had never grown more than six leaves without browning and dying.

Finally, I gave up with the very last plant, telling it "If you die, that's it! I'm not taking another cutting to ensure some part of you stays alive. Enough is enough."

Half a year later, the pic below that the very same mother plant is small, but still alive:

Not only that, but look at its babies, which are flourishing:

Sometimes, it seems, fussy plants just need a stern talking to.

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Asylum by William Johnston

 I didn't even know this beast existed until last week and now its been shoved through my letter box. All the way from America, its another Amicus novelisation, and I can't wait to read it:

It also looks rather fetching with its siblings:

Weary

 I am not having as much working on this as should be. I need a holiday to crack on with it.

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