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Saturday Flowers!
I know it is Sunday, and I should not have a Saturday Snapshot, but in some parts of the globe (like American Samoa and Hawaii) I believe it is still yesterday, which makes this post OK!Anyway, this week’s Snapshot is very brief (as well as being very late) because my mother is ill, and I am…
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A Barrowful of Bacon, and Coffee by the Tubload
It’s September, and Elizabeth von Arnim’s Solitary Summer has run its course with the arrival of 500 soldiers (and their horses), who are being quartered at the farm, and 30 officers (plus their servants) who are staying in the house. In addition there are other officers billeted in surrounding villages who must be invited to…
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True Love and a Happy Ending
When Hetty Longden arrives at her boyfriend’s cottage and finds him in bed with another woman she rips up the embroidered antique sheet which covers the couple, and drives into his expensive Porsche, wrecking her own car in the process. Heart-broken, she abandons job and flat, and retreats to her parents’ home. But her mother,…
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Oh, I Do Like To be Beside the Seaside!
We’ve had a few warm days recently, but it’s not been much of a summer, so when I came across these seaside pictures, taken in Bognor Regis a couple of years ago, it conjured up images of a lovely hot autumnal day during a mini-break down on the south coast. So, even though I’ve used…
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Consequences – Beware of Spoilers
If you don’t like spoilers, then don’t read this post, because I’m going to give away an ending! Now I realise that many of you don’t like to be told what happens in a novel, but I’ve always been quite happy to know the outcome in advance – indeed, sometimes I even sneak a peek…
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