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I dressed myself up specially for you.

But neither of us existed.

One of my astronomy students was the best in her year. Star pupil.

We hope you enjoy this garden (Heretounder referred to as 'The Garden'). Its mode of utilisation should be self-explanatory.

Update # 1

Owing to an unforeseeable mis-creation glitch we strongly non-advocate the ingestion of particular globular pomacious fruit-types that may be conducive to somatic embarrassment and conclude in potentially sub-optimal long-term heritage outcomes.

Update # 2 and Security Alert # 1

It has been brought to our (omnipresent) attention that a formerly senior advisor we were forced to demote from his former position following a management reshuffle has resorted to exploiting his recently established down-hierarchy status to promulgate misleading contrary guidance respecting the fruit referred to hereabove in Update # 1.

Garden residents should be advised that this advice is unsanctioned. It may invalidate The Garden warrant and lead to summary eviction from The Garden. Transgressors will be deemed to be in violation of the terms of tenancy and therefore lack any substantive grounds of complaint or redress, legal or otherwise.

The Garden Team wish all Residents a Happy Stay.

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Dear fly,

To leave me alone

Would be a good deed.

Mother and father,

Your voices are faint

I think I am lost to you.

It's tough being a stand up comedian. You can't afford to fall down on the job.

Damned fly.

You stopped me.

"I also live".

That's what you said.

Or not exactly that. But thinking about wild blackberries reminded me of other wild fruits.

Round here we really have only the blackberries, and sloes. Sloes are delicious as the fruit that goes into the gin-based liqueur named for them, but if you eat one plucked from the hedgerow your mouth and eyes screw up instantly. All the same I believe the sloe is part-ancestor of some cultivated plums.

Further afield, or perhaps a-wood is more accurate, I have eaten wild strawberries and raspberries in many places. I've also consumed many crab apples; usually jellified, but also crisp, sharp and raw, fresh from the tree.

Crab apples vary a lot, and may often I think have some cultivated genes in them, either crossed from regular apples, or perhaps from crab apple cultivars grown for jelly making.

All these fruits are probably members of the rose family, and rose bushes produce their own fruit - rosehips. These are supposed to be a good source of Vitamin C. If you are about the same age as me you may remember Delrosa Syrup.

First there was a proposal to remove the "Disagree" button.

"Agree" won the vote, so "Disagree" was removed.

Then there was a proposal to reinstate the "Disagree" button.

No-one disagreed, so it was reinstated.

Q. How do you get a baby leaf salad off to sleep?

A. Rocket.