Bloomin' loverly

So what do you think of the garden Brian? Looks better than it did dunnit?

Didnt you get some money or a cheque or sumpink?

Yeh we got over a thousand smackers from that Perse School for Girls.

Cor luv a duck. So that's what they smiling about. There's a lot of lavender aint there?

How true. How very, very true. And yet, much as I adore lavender, more than anything else, I like to think that we will always have the hollyhocks,  St Paul's hollyhocks,  so visible from the bus or from the pavement to the passing stranger as he (or she) gaily tosses his (or her) kebab wrapper and empty bottle of Red Bull over the garden wall, so terribly, terribly hollyhock-like, so redolent of summer, so vibrant, so visceral, so very St Paul's. My heart leaps up when I behold them. So here's a couple of pics: big ones small ones, some as big as your wrist or should that be fist?

No, I think it should be some as big as your head. Hollyhocks as big as yer 'ead.

Bloomin' loverly!