Mordor makes me thirsty! The power of Tolkien!

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Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Oh, and I am male... it just happens that I read newspaper only in bus/tram/underground. And, females have shorter tentacles.

Oh, indeed quite a lovely (tile) garden, Octopus. But oh my, I do hope you stay around the Downs longer than the usual life span. May I suggest that you, ah, um, err, avoid ...*coughs*... delay... ah, well, ah,... abstain... *ahem*. . . . (voice trails off...) But I must say the reputed intelligence and multiple digits certainly suit you.

Now, before anyone cautions about the topic, let me announce the bit of Tolkien that has a particular physical inspiration on me. Every spring I avidly seek out and read all of Sam's comments about gardening. Moving from winter cocooning to spring activity requires a substantial amount of effort to overcome winter lethargy and the kind of procrastination that readers such as I are prone to and I find Mr. Gamgee's faithful words to be a fount of powerful, positive thinking. In fact, I suspect that the depiction of Sam could well have been instrumental in the writing of a popular treatise on happiness and success.

So there you have it. I use my gardening shears to allow me to eavestrop on neighbours' conversations and I feel absolutely that I am modelling Tolkien.