PUMPKIN seeds have been a bit like butterflies for Bradley of Boort the past week. No doubt that’s the inspiration for his latest Treemendous Sign that captures the lament of butterflies, or in his case pumpkin seeds, just not being the same any more.
OTF last week recorded that Bradley had put seeds into ground, seeds from a giant pedigree, in the hope they would grow to a size suitable for carving out and the skin turned into a water-worthy vessel.
BRADLEY reports: “Every journey of consequence starts off with a few dramas. Out of all the seeds only one sprang into life. Good Gourd is a beautiful bouncing pumpkin head about to grow her first leaf. Unfortunately the batch of seeds had poor germination rates for everyone. This started my frantic search for more giant pumpkin seeds. Future pumpkin potential is arriving this week. I’m looking forward to the adventure continuing, navigating through the kinks as we aim to paddle the pumpkins down the river.”
WE’RE unsure what advice to give Bradley - perhaps don’t spend too much time watching the garden grow. Or there could be more chaos, in the butterfly effect. In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic non-linear system can result in large differences in a later state. Don’t know about you, but that explanation sounds like a script straight from a bureaucratic response.
GOVERNMENT jargon is also known as bureaucratese, an informal term for obscure speech or writing that is typically characterized by verbosity, euphemisms, jargon, and buzzwords. Also known as officialese, corporate-speak, and government-speak. The complete opposite of plain English that OTF readers like.
THERE was a bit of plain English coming from the mouth of The Oracle at the weekend. His prized worker, the farm border collie, was to be protected and spayed on Monday. Plans went the way of Bradley’s pumpkin seeds when suddenly pups started dropping. The Oracle has put the blame squarely on his sister for encouraging a friendship with her own border collie.
MUM and dad are reportedly going well and the owners relieved the delivery room was not open extended hours as was the case in Ireland back in 2020 when a border collie gave birth to 16 pups.