Melbourne Botanical Gardens

The Melbourne Botanical Gardens are astoundingly beautiful.

They were designed by some German Count quite awhile ago, & yes, that's 'Count'...(Thank you).

And he did a damn good job with the layout and the pathways and all the remarkable plants. It's huge. It's a paradise. It's like God like.

I used to think that the world's great jungles should be organised like very good golf courses, with beautiful access and easy walking, and maybe a club and a ball, and along the perimeters would be wonderland nature. But I think I'd prefer Wild Nature to be more like a well organised German Botanical Garden.

I wished to take some cutting shears and a Coles bag with me, but respect and personal integrity got in the way and stymied my predatory carnal-like plant acquisition ambitions.

We walked around for a few hours and had something to eat. Then sat in the traffic for a couple of hours on the way home, talking about how well the Chinese MG (Morris Garages) car brand has done here in recent years.

MG, & 'Haval' (Great Wall Motors: 'Havana') have actually done well and are now selling like KIAs and Hyundais used to. Good quality. Not expensive. They found their shining path. they found the right... recipe.

After a bright coolish Summertime day afoot in Melbourne, it was obviously cold and bleak and raining when we got home, and I rushed out to compare the Melbourne Botanical Gardens with our backyard.

True, the Botanical Gardens are still somewhat bigger...and involve no bright red concrete, but I think the Botanical Gardens could still learn a bit from our succinct Zen-Roman Wang-Fitzpatrick Design paradigms and synchronous yet non-repeating rhythmicities... or, um ...what do you call those things? Mum used to call them 'recipes'...Facebook and Amazon and GPS and Robodebt etc are totally dependent on them...ah, I forgot what they're called. Very important things, anyway.

Ah! That's it! Algorithm! Mum's algorithm for Baked Lamb with roast potatoes, peas, even beans sometimes...or a sponge cake...etc. A recipe! Well done, ageing brain, and Well Done, Mum!!

Anyway, back to work for the next 3 days so a bit of a flirtation with reality ahead, I guess... or just a different recipe for the days.