Pacion
06-10-2004, 07:51 PM
Do you ever go to markets? Any particular kind/favourites?
I have been to New Covent (Flower) Garden Market as portrayed in My Fair Lady with a couple of MINOR differences, ie. the flower market is no longer in the area of Covent Garden but about 10-15 mins drive away :roll: It was relocated in 1974.
ANYWAY, it was an amazing experience as it is the largest market I have been to, not ignoring the fact that I had to wake up something like 6.30 on a Saturday :shock: and by market standards, that was still late :lol:
The flowers, oh, oh, oh, the flowers! :kitty: big ones, little ones, fat ones, tall ones, pretty ones, not so pretty ones, green ones, pink ones, red ones, yellow ones, oh, oh, oh :lol:
I will always remember that first time. It was Easter and there were young families with their children. There was one family with two young girls (about 6-8 years of age) and the girls had tulips in their arms. Because it is wholesale/bulk buying (but still fairly inexpensive compared to buying them in the shops, if one controls oneself :lol: ) there must have been something like 50 tulips and the girls had to have their arms circling the flowers inorder to hold them :lol:
The only disadvantage is that it was so cold :shock: I think I had had on my coat anyway, as it was Easter but my oh my!
I saw varieties of lilies such as I have never seen before, some larger than my two hands put together :shock: in a wide variety of colours and there were miniture pineapples on stalks (again, something I had never seen before) as well as other types of flowers and foliage that you could really make a very speical arrangement/display out of, if you wanted/needed to.
Elton John's annual bill in flowers reportedly runs into the tens of thousands of dollars (or pounds, depending on which currency you think in :wink: ) and I see why :oops:
I have also been to fruit and vegetable markets but without much success, ie. often made the wrong selection such that when I got home and tried to use them, they were bad inside and had to throw them away :oops:
I have been to New Covent (Flower) Garden Market as portrayed in My Fair Lady with a couple of MINOR differences, ie. the flower market is no longer in the area of Covent Garden but about 10-15 mins drive away :roll: It was relocated in 1974.
ANYWAY, it was an amazing experience as it is the largest market I have been to, not ignoring the fact that I had to wake up something like 6.30 on a Saturday :shock: and by market standards, that was still late :lol:
The flowers, oh, oh, oh, the flowers! :kitty: big ones, little ones, fat ones, tall ones, pretty ones, not so pretty ones, green ones, pink ones, red ones, yellow ones, oh, oh, oh :lol:
I will always remember that first time. It was Easter and there were young families with their children. There was one family with two young girls (about 6-8 years of age) and the girls had tulips in their arms. Because it is wholesale/bulk buying (but still fairly inexpensive compared to buying them in the shops, if one controls oneself :lol: ) there must have been something like 50 tulips and the girls had to have their arms circling the flowers inorder to hold them :lol:
The only disadvantage is that it was so cold :shock: I think I had had on my coat anyway, as it was Easter but my oh my!
I saw varieties of lilies such as I have never seen before, some larger than my two hands put together :shock: in a wide variety of colours and there were miniture pineapples on stalks (again, something I had never seen before) as well as other types of flowers and foliage that you could really make a very speical arrangement/display out of, if you wanted/needed to.
Elton John's annual bill in flowers reportedly runs into the tens of thousands of dollars (or pounds, depending on which currency you think in :wink: ) and I see why :oops:
I have also been to fruit and vegetable markets but without much success, ie. often made the wrong selection such that when I got home and tried to use them, they were bad inside and had to throw them away :oops: