THE FLAMBOYANT GARDENING

I am renowned for being intensively inactive like most students, instead of choosing to spend most of my free days eating Tesco meal deals in parks around my flat, looking for weird english words in the dictionary to add to my vocab, or teaching myself how to play the piano (this consists of me playing ‘Someone Like You’ over and over again because it’s the only song I know, but it makes me feel like Beethoven so don’t judge). I can vaguely cook (pasta and rice mainly), I do pretty lack-lustre mopping, and only do my washing when the dirty laundry bin is overflowing. I am no Stepford house-hubby.

However today I was presented with an invaluable opportunity to prove the nay-Sayers and non-believers wrong. I mowed my parents’ garden. Fuelled by financial gain (yes, I got money for it. Yes, I am a 21 year old man, leave me alone I gotta pay the bills) but mostly the need to prove my manhood, I set out to trim the dry grass in my parents little squared patch of nature and rake it afterwards. It took me about half an hour, 30 minutes in which dressed as a really camp tennis player I blasted these ridiculous gay corkers and pretended to be in a Paula Abdul video. Sorry manhood, maybe next time. No shame in the game. So I present to you The Flamboyant Gardening Playlist which amazingly can also be played whilst undertaking in any other mundane house activities (see: dish washing). 

ROGUE VOGUE 'WHEN I LOOK AT YOU'

AZEALIA BANKS & P MONEY 'NATHAN'

J.LO & JA RULE 'I'M REAL (MURDER INC REMIX)' (Check out the amazing scene-chic gurlfran/fashion icon as an image)

SAM SPARRO 'I WISH I NEVER MET YOU (AZARI & III REMIX)'


METRONOMY 'THE BAY' (THE 2 BEARS REMIX)'


Words by Walter Adrian
Picture by Olga Teynor (Walter's Instamazing 87 year old grandma)