1001 GARDENS NOT TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE

If any of you occasionally stray from the straight and narrow and consult the newspaper website known around these parts only as Like Ours But Better you may already be familiar with the book-related writings of dishy Sam Jordison. Sam invented the book "Crap Towns", which I find heartening in itself, but he is now working on a blog that I think we could all find inspirational. 

Sam is aiming to collect readers' suggestions of all the things we should not bother doing before we die, in a vague effort to counteract the tonnage of paper spent each week persuading us of "30 things to do before you are 30" etc etc etc. 

He's looking for suggestions of films that aren't worth seeing, places that aren't worth travelling to, and experiences that really were not worth the effort of having them. 

Check it out and add your own suggestions; but NB: Sam does not tackle the vexed question of whether all 1001 Gardens in the recently published volume on the subject actually deserve to be seen before you and I croak. Perhaps Sam reckons that gardens can be crossed off the list of bothering with, wholesale.  

So now I'm intrigued. Are there gardens you've been to which were not worth the petrol money let alone the expensive cream tea? Dish the dirt and in return I'll reveal where I had to endure conversation about the owl mobile pictured above.