than being... what? There is no need to answer that. It is a sentence that speaks volumes as it is.

Your mother is hard-core flower show material. We did a lot of gardens in my youth but it is associated with hideous embarrassment and law-abiding horror because Gran used to sneak her secateurs out and steal cuttings and we used to have to hide and pretend we weren't anything to do with her.

Yay non-working break interlude amid the madness.