In a Pruning Mood
Whenever I go outside to garden (cue sounds of my mother laughing in disbelief, at this point), I’m reminded of Roald Dahl’s story ‘The Sound Machine‘, which is why I got rid of all the previous owner’s lovingly tended roses when we bought this townhouse.
That’s my excuse, and I’m sticking to it. 😉
For more entries from this last the week before last’s weekly photo challenge, see The Daily Post.
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anything to do with Roald Dahl seems like a worthy excuse!
Yes 😀 Glad you are a fan, Christine. I LOVE his stories for children and adults alike.
i have not forgotten about sharing my youth lit faves with you …. must get onto it!
Is that a witch about to do some pruning? Nice to see if it is the case
That’s me: suburban witch – no-one knows….
Cool shot, BB. I’ve never read The Sound Machine . . . but who wants roses shrieking in the garden? 😆
Exactly, Nancy! 😆 Thanks.
Run! The mad clipper prunes again!
I think I detected the gardenia bush leaning in fright, hehe (well, who wouldn’t if they saw me coming?!)
You look as if you mean business, all right!
That is a very scary photo!
I scared myself, Julie, haha – and saw my husband through the window with a WTF look on his face, when I was taking it. He’s still here, though, so he obviously likes living dangerously 😀
hahahaha terrific scary photo bb 🙂 – all we need now is the soundtrack of dread. I haven’t read that story – I must – I love Roald Dahl
I think you will enjoy it, but you’ll never look at plants in quite the same way again 🙂
Eerily foreshadowing! Great take on the theme….are there any plants/branches left? 😛
Thanks, Madelaine. Not many, hehe, but the gardenia bush gets its revenge with a mad growth spurt in Spring 🙂
Thanks, BB. I love short stories and I love to shiver – didn’t know about Roald Dahl’s shivery tales for adults!
Yes, Monica – ‘Tales of the Unexpected’. They are wonderfully weird 🙂
There is also ‘My Uncle Oswald’. which is a bit on the seedy side: This summary from Wiki – “In his 1980 review, Vance Bourjaily said, ‘What can be said is that “My Uncle Oswald” provides four or five hours of effortless reading and some amusing scenes, mostly of the kind film makers have taught us to call soft porn—so soft, indeed, that at times they turn out almost fluffy. The tone is that of a gentleman telling ribald anecdotes to his male guests after dinner. The leer is civilized… the dialog gets mean and raunchy, but the physical detail is kept decorous…. Mr. Dahl’s guests are not invited to vicarious orgy, then, nor will they hear a disguised lecture by a wicked satirist of morals and manners…. Summer reading.’ You have been warned.
That IS a scary photo…and I haven’t read the Roald Dahl story either…Nice take on the theme, BB…
Thanks, Sued – if you like gardening, perhaps you shouldn’t read it, haha
I DO like gardening so…LOL
Don’t read it! 😆