“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

  • Walking on Water!

    Water over water: on the left of the photo is the Coventry Canal,while on the right-hand side is the River Tame, in the low-lyingground below. I’ve been walking on water – well over it, to be precise. Today’s Saturday Snapshot… Continue reading

  • Short Story Sunday

    Back to Persephone this week, and a sweetly moving tale about enduring love, and faith. The Pain was written by South African born Pauline Smith in 1923, and is set in her native land. Juriaan van Royien and his wife… Continue reading

  • Short Story Sunday: Infinite Riches

    My 1993 edition of Infinite Riches,is edited by Lynn Knight. A slight change from ‘The Persephone Book of Short Stories’ this week, because I found a copy of Infinite Riches, a Virago Modern Classics short story collection, and once I… Continue reading

  • Short Story Sunday

    Time for Short Story Sunday again, and I will start by saying I absolutely hated this week’s offering, and had it been the first tale in The Persephone Book of Short Stories I doubt I would have read any further.… Continue reading

  • Teatime Treats!

    Teatime treats! Help yourself to a cake or biscuit people! And you needn’t worry about the calorie count as these little morsels are certainly not fattening – because they’re made from wool. I was so delighted with the Blooms and… Continue reading

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