The picture was, of course, the site where we had found Senecio serpens, the blue chalksticks.

It was a nice find although blue chalksticks, as they are commonly called, are not too rare unless they flower in an unusual colour.

I repeated the story although Marie had no chance of pronouncing the Latin names of the two succulents which I then referred to as, 'blue chalksticks and another succulent genus which I can write for you, if you want?'