Angels Rush in by Jilly Cooper

Author:Jilly Cooper [Jilly Cooper]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House
Published: 1993-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

The suburbs

‘Ewbank’d inside and Atco’d out, the English suburban residence and the garden which is an integral part of it stand trim and lovingly cared for in the mild sunshine. Everything is in its place. The leaves of the virginia creeper which climbs the rough-cast wall just below the best bedroom hardly stir.

J. M. Richards

The Castles on the Ground

Nothing has really changed in the suburbs. When we lived in a working-class part of Fulham no one minded that we never bothered with our garden. A few neighbours grew vegetables and fought a losing battle with visiting torn cats, but the rest of us let the weeds flourish and chucked our beer cans and spare-rib bones over each other’s fences when we ran out of dustbin space. Only when we moved to Putney, a Madam Butterfly land of cherry trees and flowering shrubs, and inherited a beautifully kept garden which we promptly let go to rack and ruin, did we discover that gardening here was taken very seriously indeed. Soon the whole street were clicking their tongues over our hayfield of a lawn and making cracks about calling in the Forestry Commission to deal with the weeds. Finally a kindly neighbour could bear it no longer and found a gardener to come in three hours a week and sort us out.

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