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Thursday, December 01, 2005

In which I comfortably exceed my previous record for hyperlinks per line.

So anyway, I'd just been reading Mike's post all about his fruity ceramic oddity, and had posted a picture of the Dunmore Pineapple in his comment box (as you do). When we lived in Stirling it was one of the places we liked to take visitors. We also liked to take them to meet Hercules the bear. I mean, you can't avoid Robert the Bruce and William Wallace (we had a stunning view of the Wallace Monument from our living-room, and Bannockburn is a Stirling suburb) but one tries to diversify, to avoid the obvious where one can.

Anyway...I was idly Googling around looking for more pictures of the Pineapple (and I bet that isn't a sentence that gets typed very often) and thus encountered Tiny Pineapple. Her blog contained this post, which I submitted to Mike as a Post of the Week contender. It also contained this gallery (hence the Google hit) of general pineappleabilia. Divinely bizarre; I would have sent her a picture of Mike's botanical/sculptural monstrosity were it clearly not, as qB pointed out so wittily, a Pumpkinapple. Mike, you'll just have to wait for a Tiny Pumpkinapple blog to evolve.

5 Comments:

At 02 December, 2005 12:48, Blogger mike said...

Hey, I actually followed all of that without needing to click anything!

 
At 03 December, 2005 16:09, Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

I bet you didn't know that the world's biggest pineapple is in Bathurst, Eastern Cape, S Africa?

Bathurst: http://www.bathurst.co.za/

But go here for a better picture of the pineapple

http://www.albanyhotels.co.za/protea_bathurst.htm

 
At 03 December, 2005 16:16, Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

Even better: http://www.go24.co.za/regions/3/10/957/27

Going to try an experiment now..you and Troubled Diva will be guinea pigs

 
At 03 December, 2005 16:23, Blogger Reluctant Nomad said...

Bummer, it didn't work!

That last site allows you to email a postcard of the big pineapple - well, it says it does but it doesn't seem to work.

So, count yourself lucky that you didn't find a pineapple in your inbox.

 
At 05 December, 2005 23:04, Blogger Rob said...

Nomad - I passed that information on to Tiny Pineapple, who rather to my surprise didn't know about that one so is going to add it to her list.

Thanks.

 

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