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Lost Love and Eternal Triangles…
This Art Deco figure by Demetre Chiparuscaptures the feel of the book as Nigel andCaroline seek love. Not knowing anything about Violet Trefusis, beyond the brief fact that she eloped with Vita Sackville-West and was the daughter of Alice Keppel… Continue reading
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Peas, Bears, Birds and Stars…
Pea tendrils sweeping the air for lattices.(Pic from Anglia Farmer). Peas are clocky children who become spoony adults. Once they grow long-limbed, they start to teeter, because they possess more self than they can support. Then they grow madly wending tendrils… Continue reading
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October’s Book Stack…
Well, this year seems to have gone very quickly, and we’re into October already, so here’s a picture from the 15th century Book of Hours known as Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, showing people ploughing and sowing, because I… Continue reading
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A Disappointing View of Childhood
Who remembers reading Ballet Shoes, White Boots, Curtain Up, The Painted Garden, The Circus is coming, and all those other wonderful Noel Streatfeild books? I still read them with as much enjoyment as I did when I was a child,… Continue reading
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Short Story Sunday: Wartime Again…
Sunday morning is here again, so I shall try to gather my thoughts and decipher my notes and come up with a few brief comments on some tales from The Persephone Book of Short Stories. Actually, I visited my Younger… Continue reading
The Book Trunk 