![]() ![]() As the woman snapped her handbag shut, she looked up, and straight at me. Now, I probably wouldn’t remember anything about this particular incident were it not for what happened next. Namely, a small trowel, which she used to dig up a plant and its wispy roots, and a plastic bag to receive the plant, which she then dropped into her open handbag. While she pulled things out of her bag on one side of a flowerbed, so did a much older woman on the other side. Either my brother or sister had fallen over, because we were all crouched on the gravel, and Mum was examining a knee. ![]() ![]() I must have been about eight, and visiting a garden – probably one padding a National Trust house. I once saw a woman pull a plant from a bed, then put it in her handbag.
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