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A quote from CHL. Begin by looking at the National Portrait Gallery photo-portrait of CHL (knight of the realm...caps?  Nah, I am an American).  The image cannot be posted here (I honor intellectual property preferences).

Christopher Lloyd; Fergus Garrett by Tessa Traeger (silver gelatin print, 2001; 11 3/8 in. x 15 in. (290 mm x 380 mm); Commissioned, 2004-02-120

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be.  Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony.  It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.  ~Christopher Lloyd, The Well-Tempered Garden, 1973

He also grows the lovely purple king of a clemetis, jackmanii. "A column of color," he says, which is a contrast in form to my lounging one.