And how just a couple of words can remind one of something quite different.
We have a TV programme on at present - I think it's a repeated series - called "I Shouldn't be Alive" about people in hugely dangerous situations which would kill anyone else off in seconds, somehow these (usually)guys manage to defy all odds and come through to a happy ending. Usually I've found it a programme good for great laughs, as the situations are just SO crazily impossible that I have to take it all as a send up of sorts.
Anyway, last week there was an episode about two guys called Tom Hart Dyke and Paul Winder, kidnapped by drug people as they tried to travel on foot through an area between Panama and Columbia, called the Darien Gap (shades of stout Cortez?). The names seemed slightly familiar to me and then as it progressed a little and I learned that the Tom person was a gardener from the UK, I remembered that I had read a very interesting book called "The Cloud Garden." (John's cloud forests reminded me.) The TV episode I was watching was actually the story of the book. There were some references to orchids and such in the book much not much else bonical, a good yarn though.
