December 2004
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Microwaves can’t be good.
I was watching my favorite Sunday lunchtime TV prog - Country File - which was mostly about ’slow food’ (an explanation of which can be found here) and I realise that this is what I have been trying to achieve in my day-to-day vegetarian diet.
I don’t own a microwave, and watching real food being cooked by real people has just re-inforced my belief that microwaves are a symptom of a very poor attitude to food in this country (plus they may cause more than just bad meals - see here). I don’t feel too gloomy about all this though; I get a very real sense that the backlash against supermarkets, fast food and microwave dinners has begun.
Viva la revolution.
Written by exmonkey on December 12th, 2004 with no comments.
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Right now, on BBC2 - Gardens Through Time, Diarmuid Gavin is currently talking about 1970s gardens - it seems that this is when ‘architechtural’ plants hit the mainstream… And that means yuccas! There are loads!
We have John Brooks to thank for the introduction of these invaders of our sub-urban environment - that and stepping stones on the grass.
Written by exmonkey on December 7th, 2004 with no comments.
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The mere fact that this tv show exists fills me with both a feeling of hopelessness for the future of humanity and an overwhelming desire to jump on my motorbike, ride to the production company who create this shite and make the directors eat each other’s fingernails.
Written by exmonkey on December 6th, 2004 with no comments.
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Just been going back through some old Yucca photos and have found these beauties.
Lewsiham yucca and Greenwich yucca are within a 1.5 miles of one another, but the difference could not be more stark. Today’s urban yucca occupies a truely classless position.
I have an excellent photo of a Yapton (Ilex way, West Sussex) rural yucca, but the image file seems to be corrupt. I will attempt to get it rescanned and add it as soon as I can.
Written by exmonkey on December 6th, 2004 with no comments.
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Rotherhithe Police Station
Written by exmonkey on December 6th, 2004 with 2 comments.
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11 Park Vista Greenwich
Written by exmonkey on December 6th, 2004 with no comments.
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38 Lewisham Road, Lewisham
Written by exmonkey on December 6th, 2004 with no comments.
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This pair were spotted near Burgess Park off the Old Kent Road
Written by exmonkey on December 4th, 2004 with no comments.
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Written by exmonkey on December 4th, 2004 with no comments.
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Yuccas are alien. The have encroached on our shores in a slow tide of shiny leaved spikiness.
Yuccas originate from southern United States (I am assuming Texas, Arizona etc). They are desert dwelling plants that would normally harbor small dusty rodents and the occasional scorpion, and here, this insidious invader can be seen in the every road, in every town in our fair land.
Yuccas can be found in front gardens, on window ledges, in skips and occupying the centre of many a local parks’ ornamental flowerbed. They are no respecter of income or social position. Yuccas are the alien children of each and every one of us.
In an effort to bring the spread of the urban yucca to the public consciousness, enshrined in this blog, is my ever increasing collection of photo evidence (as and when I get the images scanned!)
Written by exmonkey on December 4th, 2004 with no comments.
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