RIP Little Weed, my first love
They say you never forget your first love – a psychiatrist once told me that your first proper intimation of your own mortality comes when you learn that your first love has died.
Well, when I was a little boy, my favourite television programme was The Flower Pot Men, featuring Bill and Ben (the flower pot men) and their friend Little Weed, a flora of indeterminate species (a curious dandelion/sunflower cross) with a beaming smile and a squeaky voice.
Little Weed was only a string
