Lupins in the awesome friends’ garden – watercolour in a pocket NB
I can paint them this good four out of five times – on a good day that is!
To describe how rich they are here is MPFC part of Denis Moore…
Caption: England, 1747
(Sounds of a coach and horses, galloping)
Moore (John Cleese): Stand and deliver! Drop that gun!
(The coach comes to a halt. The drivers hold up their hands, but the postilion reaches for a gun. Moore shoots him.)
Moore: Let that be a warning to you all. You move at your peril, for I have two pistols here. I know one of them isn’t loaded any more, but the other one is, so that’s one of you dead for sure, or just about for sure anyway. It certainly wouldn’t be worth your while risking it because I’m a very good shot. I practice every day, well, not absolutely every day, but most days in the week. I expect I must practice four or five times a week, at least four or five, only some weekends… like last weekend, there really wasn’t the time, so that moved the average down a bit. I should say it’s definitely a solid four days’ practice every week… at least. I mean, I reckon I could hit that tree over there… the one just behind that hillock, not the big hillock, the little hillock on the left. You can see the three trees, the third one from the left and back a bit – that one – I reckon I could hit that four times out of five… on a good day. Say, with this wind… say, say seven times out of ten.
Squire (Terry Jones): What, that tree there?
Moore: Which one?
Squire: The big beech with the sort of bare branch coming out of the top left.
Moore: No, no, not that one.
Girl (Carol Cleveland): No, no, he means the one over there. Look, you see that one there?
Squire: Yes.
Girl: Well now, go two along to the right.
Coachman: Just near that little bush.
Girl: Well it’s the one just behind it.
Squire: Ah! The elm.
Moore: No, that’s not an elm. Al elm’s got sort of great clumps of leaves like that. That’s either a beech or a… er… hornbeam.
Parson (Eric Idle): A hornbeam?
Moore: On no, not a hornbeam. What’s the tree that has a leaf with sort of regular veins coming out and the veins go all the way out to the…
Girl: Serrated?
Moore: …to the serrated edges.
Parson: A willow!
Moore: Yes, that’s right.
Parson: That’s nothing like a willow.
Moore: Well it doesn’t matter, anyway. I can hit it seven times out of ten, that’s the point.
Parson: Never a willow.
Moore: Shut up! This is a hold-up, not a botany lesson. Right! Now my fine friends, no false moves please. I want you to hand over all the lupins you’ve got.
Squire: Lupins?
Moore: Yes, lupins. Come on, come on.
Parson: What do you mean, lupins?
Moore: Don’t try and play for time.
Parson: I’m not, you mean the flower lupin?
Moore: Yes, that’s right.
Squire: Well we haven’t got any lupins.
Girl: Honestly.
Moore: Look, my fine friends. I happen to know that this is the Lupin Express.
Squire: You must be out of your tiny mind.
Moore: Get out of the coach. Come on, get out!
(They exit the coach. Moore enters it and comes out with an armful of lupins.)
Moore: Just as I thought, not clever enough my fine friend. Come on, Concorde! (Gallops off)
Squire: Well, so much for the lupins.
Chorus (sings): Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, galloping through the sward,
Dennis Moore, Dennis Moore, and his horse Concorde.
He steals from the rich and gives to the poor,
Mr Moore, Mr Moore, Mr Moore.
Uncle Bob 10:15 am on June 15, 2010 | #
Aye Ziza. Always suspected there was something “Unusual” about you. Now I’m convinced!
roseindigo 10:21 am on June 15, 2010 | #
So who is Dennis Moore? Liked your little play and the play on botanical words.
Also think this is a lovely garden scene.
ziza 1:29 am on June 16, 2010 | #
Thank you my “thin” grandson Bob. As you already know being qualified as “unusual” is a compliment to your old grandpa. As soon as my pension/retirement check arrives I’ll send you agreed allowance for this vote.
Dear Rose, I’m flattered by appreciation of my garden scene by our No 1 botanical-art expert. I thought this one is as good as the other one of mine for these daily posts, but so far it gained less than a third of the votes (and if I didn’t manage to buy Bob’s vote it would certainly be even worse). That proves my theory that the position on the daily posts’ page (which is done by our beloved webmaster Leo) does influence a vote count.
MPFC stands for Monty Python Flying Circus – the famous and cult British comedy group that was making revolution in the TV comedy back in early ’70s (69-72) with 4 cinema movies stretching their group presence to ’82. This one is the script of (the part of) the sketch from the episode in season 3, the last one where John Cleese (Denis Moore in this sketch) took part. He them moved on and made one of the best sitcoms ever the Faulty Towers with “only” 12 masterpiece-episodes.
If you have a chance do watch them – you won’t regret it. They issued complete DVD set only in the USA and I was lucky enough to get them here through my Chinese-American friend who was a guest professor at IHE inn The Netherlands where I used to work.
If you are not ultimately religious than see the movie “Life of Brian” which is by far my favourite. Also see “A Fish Called Wanda” and you’d understand why I like them so much…