A Voyage Round My Father by John Mortimer & John Mortimer

Author:John Mortimer & John Mortimer
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141959870
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2010-09-14T04:00:00+00:00

SON. The enormous garden became dark and overgrown in spreading patches. He continued, every day, to chronicle its progress in the diary he dictated.

Offstage voice, amplified, the FATHER speaks.

FATHER. Put sodium chlorate on the front path. We had raspberry pie from our own raspberries. The dahlias are coming into flower. The jays are eating all the peas …

SON. Willow herb and thistles and bright poppies grew up. The fruit cage collapsed like a shaken temple and woods supported the tumbled netting. The rhododendrons and yew hedges grew high as a jungle, tall and dark and uncontrolled, lit with unexpected flowers …

FATHER (O.S.). Thomas came and we saw him standing still among the camellias …

SON. A boy was hired to engage the garden in single combat. His name was not Thomas.

FATHER (O.S.). Planted a hundred white crocus and staked up the Malva Alcoa. A dragon fly came into the sitting room. Thomas was paid. Am laid up. The pest officer arrived to eliminate the wasp nests. Unhappily I couldn’t watch the destruction …

SON. In the summer, with the garden at its most turbulent, he became suddenly very old and ill …

ELIZABETH (O.S.). ‘What are you going to take for breakfast, Mr Phelps?’ said Holmes, ‘Curried fowl, eggs or will you help yourself?’

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