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Love Among the Butterflies
One of my daughters took this photograph in the museum at Plymouth. The butterflies on display are not from Margaret Fountaine’s collection, but I like the picture! Margaret Fountaine was a feisty Victorian Englishwoman of independent means who travelled the world for 50 years collecting butterflies, and was totally unfazed by the unaccustomed situations and…
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Taking a Wrong Turning
The long and winding road… it was the firsttime we had ever seen grass growing in themiddle of the road! Today’s Saturday Snapshot is a kind of follow-up on last week’s, because on the way back from Bigbury Beach and Burgh Island we took a wrong turning, and instead of driving along the’A’ road we wanted,…
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Computer Update
Yay! I have a laptop that works! Not new, but as good as, hopefully. I went to look at new ones yesterday, spotted one I liked, at a really good price, and asked if it would still be available, at that price, today. Having been assured it would, I went away to investigate my finances…
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Literary Landscapes and Broken Computers
September is here, and I am all behind-hand with everything, and my posts have been a little erratic – but the past few weeks seem to have been a permanent holiday, and we have had a wonderful time. First we took a trip to Cumbria, where I did lots of reading, but internet connections were…
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An Island Fit For a Crime Queen
Burgh Island Hotel inspired one of Agatha Christie’s mostfamous crime mysteries This wonderful art deco hotel is on Burgh Island, in Devon, and was the setting for two novels by crime queen Agatha Christie, who lived in Devon and stayed at the hotel on occasions. We admired the building, which looks a bit like a…
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