{"id":117970,"date":"2020-07-26T20:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-26T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-brother-and-i-tried-to-break-into-a-botanical-garden-and-memories-of-my-father-rushed-back-zoe-williams\/"},"modified":"2020-07-26T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-26T14:03:22","slug":"my-brother-and-i-tried-to-break-into-a-botanical-garden-and-memories-of-my-father-rushed-back-zoe-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/my-brother-and-i-tried-to-break-into-a-botanical-garden-and-memories-of-my-father-rushed-back-zoe-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"My brother and I tried to break into a botanical garden \u2013 and memories of my father rushed back | Zoe Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nOur attempt at illicit entry failed, but my brother blagged free entry from some people in the queue. In that moment, he reminded me more than ever of our dadGardeners are incredibly good at getting their point across, aren\u2019t they? For weeks, the plight of garden centres was at the forefront of the country\u2019s collective mind. Then, last week, a collective of botanical gardens popped up, pleading with people who had reserved tickets to turn up. They were already on their knees and couldn\u2019t cope with the no-shows. I felt a bolt of shame on hearing this, as just the day before I had tried to break into a botanical garden with one of my brothers. (It sounds worse than it was: we didn\u2019t take bolt cutters or anything.)The brother in question met our father, and the rest of us, when he was 28 (I was 30). Then, 18 months later, our dad died, which felt more than unjust to the pair of them; it had that sour taste of the universe cocking up. They deserved more time together. But, from a selfish point of view, you know when a family suffers a terrible loss and they get a cat, and they somehow get it into their heads that it is inhabited by the spirit of their lost loved one and get solace from it? It was like that, except real, which is to say not a cat. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jul\/26\/my-brother-and-i-tried-to-break-into-a-botanical-garden-and-memories-of-my-father-rushed-back\" target=\"_blank\">My brother and I tried to break into a botanical garden \u2013 and memories of my father rushed back | Zoe Williams<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; Our attempt at illicit entry failed, but my brother blagged free entry from some people&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-uGK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":96131,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/10-great-botanical-gardens-around-the-world-readers-tips\/","url_meta":{"origin":117970,"position":0},"title":"10 great botanical gardens around the world: readers\u2019 tips","date":"August 16, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r From the tropics to the Arctic Circle, these gardens are full of colour, wildlife, scents, and, sometimes, spectacular views and great cafes, tooThe 250-hectare Arid Lands Botanical Garden on the coast in Port Augusta (three hours\u2019 drive north of Adelaide) made for a wonderful visit. 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