23 Feb 2003

Botanical Gardens pictures

I’ve put up a few pictures from my jaunt around the University Botanical Gardens over on wings open wide. There weren’t a lot of flowers in bloom in the main garden (understandably, given the season), so most of the images were taken in the glasshouses. I discovered some technical difficulties with taking photographs in a glasshouse: the lens kept steaming up, so I was wiping it every few minutes, and the light was rather subdued, so some of the pictures have a rather limited depth of field. Anyway, take a look and tell me what you think.
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    lovely pics, as usual, although the pitcher plant also resurfaced deeply repressed memories of hiding behind the sofa when 'day of the triffids' was on tv.----- Thanks! I get the same feeling when I see dustbins: I spent a lot of my childhood peering out at the daleks from behind the sofa. They still scare me... Not the plunger and the egg whisk... Noooo!

    by bsag @ 24/02/2003 11:02 pm • Permalink

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    sometimes they had a claw instead of an egg whisk, remember that? as eddie izzard once said, "what was that for? 'yes, we will exterminate, but first we shall gather nuts...'"

    by dvd @ 25/02/2003 12:02 am • Permalink

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    Oooo, the claw ones were the worst. But what really freaked me out was the brain in the fish tank.

    by bsag @ 25/02/2003 10:02 pm • Permalink

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    brain in a fish tank? you have some interesting ornaments on your telly!

    by dvd @ 26/02/2003 1:02 am • Permalink

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    Otherwise known as 'The Brain of Morbius' http://www.pressenter.com/~stevenma/TheBrainofMorbius.html -- though Morbius doesn't look at all as I remember him. Kind of reminds me of the Smash aliens, with added hairy bits (this will be incomprehensible to non-British readers). At some point before Morbius gets a body of sorts to put his brain in, it resides in green gloop in a fish tank. This episode has been parodied several times in Futurama (along with just about every other Sci-Fi film. -----

    by bsag @ 26/02/2003 8:03 pm • Permalink