This Is This

Is it me, or does anyone else really like Monty Don?

I think he’s awesome. He’s a burley guy, with soft features. A working man well-spoken. Hands like shovels and a gentle soul. I’ve thought this for some time, so I just wanted to give props to the Mo Do because I know he’s a big This Is This fan.*

Also, he has written about depression a lot in a way that I really appreciated which has helped me understand the condition which whistles through the branches of my family tree.

I’d like to have a drink with the guy and talk about brassicas and acers. Until then, the best I can do is play the Gardener’s World drinking game, where you take a sip every time someone says the word compost.

Monty Don. I wonder if he gets a lot of post for Don Monty? I wonder if he gets on with Alan Titchmarsh? The reason I ask is because Monty fronts a successful show called Gardener’s World and Titchmarsh comes right along and cleans up with How To Be A Gardener, spinning off books and DVDs like crazy. Easy money. Have some respect for god’s sake, man. When Wayne’s World came along, I didn’t go and do How To Be A Wayne, did I?

Then Titchmarsh becomes the voice of Gordon The Garden Gnome while his hostas are still warm in the ground. Ruddy cheek.

Does anyone else remember that book from the 70’s about gnomes? Did it seem like everyone had a copy? That was bigger than disco. I fucking loved that book. The pictures of the bashful teenage gnome asking out by her nervous suiter. Papa gnome riding on the nose of a fox? The little lady picking shedded wool off a barbed-wire fence. That was a great idea. I don’t think publishers would take such a risk these days. Who knew an A3 (was it A3? Everything seemed bigger when you’re a kid) book would be so popular?

A lot of these references will be lost of American readers, so I throw in that last paragraph for you. You Tube him.

That’s advice, by the way, not an accusation.

* As far as I know, he is not known as the Mo Do and he has probably never read this site. I’m just joking around with you. Compost.

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