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The Crop

Sunday, June 21st, 2009 · 6 Comments

The fantasy novelist must possess ninja skills in any number of crafts, gardening included. Here’s the first of this year’s strawberry crop.

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6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 Neil Pearson // Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 7:00 pm

    I hope the farmers of Villjamur have better luck with their intake or they wont be having a wimbledon come winter.

  • 2 Mark C Newton // Sunday, June 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pm

    They have cultists to assist (should they have the cash and be in favour of the council). Strawberries will be served under a red sun. With cream of course.

  • 3 Alex Carnegie // Monday, June 22nd, 2009 at 5:25 pm

    LOL @ “a Wimbledon’.

    Wondering now if the next one is to be entitled ‘Mixed Doubles of Villjamur” :P

  • 4 Neil Pearson // Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 7:35 am

    will the cultists have a retractable roof for when it snows?
    The comments have brought about an interesting line of thought which is whether the the people of Villjamur and the empire have a national sport? It seems likely that such an urban environment would have some form of sport – they have dance already.

    Were the strawberries (only barely making the plural) any good? I’m sure they tasted great thanks to the psychological top-up of “I grew them myself”.

  • 5 Mark C Newton // Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009 at 7:37 am

    The cultists have ways of coping… I’m sure there is a sport. Just because it wasn’t in the text doesn’t mean it wasn’t there. ;P I like to think, in some quarters, crime is the pastime of choice.

    They were delicious!

  • 6 The Crop #2 // Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 at 4:29 pm

    [...] – a trip to Sainsbury’s will not be possible in such circumstances. In addition to crop one, we can add cherry [...]

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