My friend the Johnson's Blue

English: Geranium 'Johnson's Blue' Deutsch: Geranium (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In the huge expanse of plants for sale, outdoors at the rear of Trago Mills I found them. Last seen in my garden in London and first discovered in the RHS garden south of London at Wisley, the Johnson's Blue Geranium (Cranesbill) is my favourite plant that flowers. When I first saw it many years ago I was surprised because I had thought that blue flowers on a geranium were unlikely. Not at all like the red geraniums in window boxes in Spain.


(But I still have not found the Lost Bananas)

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How are you today?

English: Royal National Institute of Blind People , 105 Judd Street, London WC1H 9NE . Corner with Hastings Street. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The young woman was facing us, my wife and I, as we entered Tesco. She asked my wife:
How are you today?
Doing anything interesting?
What's your name?

We were both a bit stunned for a second by the demand for so much information from a complete stranger. We accepted her handout about the RNIB.

"I've lost my bananas," I said.

The girl's face dealt with this information and I'm sure she was just about to offer to help me find them. We hurried out of earshot.

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