Thursday 14 August 2008

Handbags and Gladrags

What’s your funniest garden book moment - if indeed you have one.

Mine was seeing a pile of one of Diarmuid Gavin's books - I think it was Outer Spaces - in Poundland, alongside boxes of Colgate toothpaste with Turkish writing and packs of 48 AA batteries.
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2 comments:

emmat said...

i laughed at my acquisitiveness the other day when I came home bearing a copy of Christopher Lloyd's Gardening Year, only to find about a week later that I already had one. Good work Townshend.

VP said...

I was cornered in Waterstones Gardening section in Bristol by a mad woman wanting to know if 'Around the World in 80 (or 82 when you look at the book) Gardens' was any good. I was waiting for my freebie copy from the GW subscription dept. at the time, so hadn't read it