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Thank goodness for the beautiful flower markets in the Dordogne! One of the joys of living in France and in the Dordogne in particular, is that here every flower is grown with love in the land which we love, picked with love and enjoyed by all! On a Saturday morning I can walk across the village square to the Lalinde fresh produce market-- to the corner under the 'halles' where a lovely local woman brings the pickings of her garden from that morning. Bunches of something of everything. For next to nothing I can buy bunches and bunches of flowers of every colour, every perfume and fill the chateau with fresh flowers for the week!
But then I read a blog entry by James Forsyth on Coffeehouse -- and I can but shake my head in wonder!!
Hollywood, friend of cheap dates everywhere
Leonardo di-Caprio and Blood Diamond gave men an excuse not to buy their wives and girlfriends diamonds on the grounds that they were ethically tainted. Now Julia Roberts is going to star in a movie that will do the same for flowers, reports New York Magazine.
The film, based on the Vanity Fair essay ‘A Flowering Evil’, will tell the tale of the conservationist Joan Root who struggled to save Lake Naivasha in Kenya from the flower farm industry before being murdered earlier this year.
All Hollywood needs to do now is to make a good thriller about the evils of the chocolate industry and tight-wads the world over will be able to say, "I'm not cheap, I'm ethical."
Hear! Hear!
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