The day of the triffids

That’s what this reminds me of - reading this book and loving it as a teenager. I think it was this book that started my obsession with the library - but that obsession went up in smoke when I had twins.

The triffid above was in my pond. My natural pond seems to be quite healthy, even without any filtration. But every now and then I need to halve the mass of water plants and today I plunged right in.