“Go back to your books, to your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

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Latest Posts

  • Sky Bears and Kissing Planets

    Just look what I’ve got… The Stargazers’ Almanac! Isn’t it beautiful? It gives a month by month account of what can be seen in the night sky, with lovely clear maps looking north and south, so you won’t miss anything.… Continue reading

  • Spring Bulbs, Marmalade, Sulphur and Soup!

    I was brought up in Surrey, and I love gardening books, so Pot-Pourri from a Surrey Garden, by Mrs CW Earle, seemed tailor-made for me, and I succumbed to its delights as soon as I spotted it (in a box… Continue reading

  • An Impossible Marriage

    Right, after Margery Sharp here’s another New-to-Me novelist to enthuse about – Pamela Hansford Johnson who was, apparently, immensely popular from the late 1930s through to the 1960s, but seems to have been largely forgotten in recent years. I’ve seen… Continue reading

  • There Will Be No New Books….

    I am the first to admit that volunteering in an Oxfam Book Shop is not necessarily the best of activities for someone who has resolved that there will be No New Books. But the other volunteers are so nice, and… Continue reading

  • Camiknickers and Evening Dresses…

     Singing in the bath… Greer Garson starred in Julia Misbehaves, a film of the book which, apparently, altered the story considerably. I must admit, I find it difficult to imagine her as Julia. Julia, by marriage Mrs Packett, by… Continue reading

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