“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

  • Sleepless Nights and Tea Rationing

    Last night was one of those when I woke up and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I went downstairs, made a cup of tea, and carried on reading Few Eggs And No Oranges, the wartime diaries of Vere Hodgson,… Continue reading

  • 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

  • Snapshots of Paris…

    I’ve been looking through my old holiday photos and, since I’m on a ‘virtual’ trip for the Paris in July challenge, run by Karen at Book Bath and Tamara at Thyme for Tea, and Dreaming of France over at An Accidental… Continue reading

  • Hemingway Remembers Paris

    If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast. These words, written by Ernest Hemingway to… Continue reading

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel

    A Scarlet Pimpernel flower. Does anyone else out there have a problem with the French Revolution? My view of it is much the same as my view of the English Civil War, and is best summed up by Sellar and… Continue reading

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