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Lost in Translation Fifty Three

May 12, 2010
09:37 AM

This in fact is a piece of a blog entry of mine from September 2008.

I am reminded of it everytime I look into M. Sanquery’s Winery from the terrace.

And this is the Castor Oil Plant.
(a small explanation is necessary)

My sister D was staying with us the first easter we were here when Sile spotted a large castor oil plant growing up the wall in front of the winery which is just in front of the house.
Aha! says Sile lookijg at the plant. “That’s a castor oil plant”
“Is it ?” says sister D, looking at the winery “I thought it was a wine making place”

Since then M. Sanquery’s wine making area has been known as “The Castor Oil Plant”

Comments

  1. padraic

    on May 13, 2010

    Reminds me of the Irish Times Career Guidance correspondent who has written two years in succession about “a third level course in Biology” referred to as Plant Engineering. No-one seems to have picked him up on this yet.

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