Oh pooh....

[fuchsoid]

My plans for the Thames Festival have been derailed. Last week's threatening sore throat has blossomed into a full-blown horrible fluey cold with all the trimmings. I managed to get my usual Saturday shop done yesterday, including flowers (fuchsia-coloured asters*), a nice new shirt and some fabric for the fabric mountain, but when I got in I

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[pondhopper]

Oh dear. That's no good.
Well, I hope it's not a horribly long and drawn-out illness.
:(

9 years after the fact one wonders at how the world just muddles on, recessions and depressions included. I've lost hope of wars ever ending.
Not in my lifetime, anyway.

Are these fuschia fuschias?
;)

[thistleingrey]

Alas--I hope you feel better soon.

I've seen fuchsia-colored fuchsias! CA nurseries sell them. I tried images.google.com, and the best of the representative photos is from a French site; admittedly, with that outer color I'm used to seeing the inner petals a bit darker, towards purple, like this.