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A Forgotten Novel That’s Best Left Undiscovered!
It’s not often I give up on book, but I gave up on Hilaire Belloc’s Mr Petre. Actually, I was going to say I’m sorry to admit I didn’t finish this book, but then I thought why should I feel… Continue reading
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Garden Gaze: Seeds, Weeds and Smells
Well, it’s September, and gardens, hedgerows, fields and woods seem to be full of flowers, grasses, trees and bushes, all producing seeds to ensure the survival of the species, so for the this month’s Gardening Gaze I’ve been looking to… Continue reading
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Bombs, Boats, and Daffodils…
War Messages: Endpapers in Persephone’s Few Eggs and No Orangesare from a design called London Wall, printed from a fragment of rayon headscard produced by Jacqmar Ltd c.1942. For those of us born after the Second World War it’s hard to imagine… Continue reading
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Ladies Who Lunch – With a Hidden Past!
Somehow, as I read this short story I thought of our two ladies being Edwardian, but there are references to flying and a speakeasy, which would place it in the 1920s or the early ’30s. I our imagine the duo… Continue reading
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A Misty Moisty Morning…
Burrator Dam, at one end of Burrator Reservoir on Dartmoor.The road runs across it, so you can walk across and look downat the water , which is an awfully long down down! This week we have been to visit my… Continue reading
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