TULIP FEVER
They’re planting tulip bulbs in Istanbul. Hundreds of thousands of them – millions, more likely… billions, perhaps.
And I, in common with many a Turkish bahçıvan (gardener), can be found trowel-wielding right now on hands and knees, cursing our stony ground as I struggle to bury the little onion-like globes several inches deep.
Following the late Christopher Lloyd’s