Day Jar View » plant http://www.dayjarview.com I heard commentary and dissent had merged and formed dysentery Fri, 07 May 2010 10:32:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Well, Minister, I see green shoots too http://www.dayjarview.com/2009/02/i-see-green-shoots-too/ http://www.dayjarview.com/2009/02/i-see-green-shoots-too/#comments Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:36:03 +0000 Rob http://www.dayjarview.com/blog/?p=46 For the past ten years, I’ve had a plant. It’s been in a few offices, and now resides in my house., above the fire. I don’t know what it is – I think it might be an Amaryllis, but don’t quote me – but it is still around, and is the only thing we haven’t managed to kill.

Each year I am consistently amazed by the appearance around this time of green stalks, from a bulb that has all the hallmarks of a dessicated cricket ball. How does it survive? How does it know it’s spring? How on earth can it go without a drink for 4 months when I forget to water it?

Who knows. All I know is that around the same time that the Business minister was busy putting her foot in her mouth about the green shoots appearing in the economy’s flower bed, my plant was busy putting up a few of its own. Here’s to another ten years!

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