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Rediscovering Rosamond Lehmann
One of the good things about blogging is that not only do you come across recommendations for things you’ve never read, but you come across things you’ve read and forgotten. Rosamond Lehmann is an example. At some point in the dim and distant past I read most of novels (I remember being totally knocked out…
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These Little Piggies… Are Made of Flowers!
These floral pigs stand amid the flowers on a roundabout outside the entrance to Tamworth Railway Station, and they are the nicest things about the station, which is truly horrible – it’s a concrete monstrosity, and the second-tier of the car park is even worse, because it looks as if it’s been made from a…
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf – Not Me!
Having spent more than 30 years avoiding Virginia Woolf (I read her as a teenager, but failed to understand her writing, and consequently didn’t like it at all) I approached Mrs Dalloway with trepidation, but I needn’t have worried – I loved it, and I can’t believe I’ve spent so long being scared of Woolf. It…
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The Provincial Daughter Needs a Voice of Her Own
At the time it was first published (in 1960), Provincial Daughter, written by RM Dashwood, must have seemed a good idea – after all, it’s the diary of a fifties housewife, written by the daughter of EM Delafield, author of The Diary of a Provincial Lady. But it didn’t quite do it for me. At…
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Knock The Village Down – It Spoils The View!
Part of the grounds at Shugbrough Hall. Today’s Saturday Snapshots come to you from Shugborough Hall, in Staffordshire, where an entire village was once razed to the ground because it spoiled the view! Sadly, on the day I visited, the weather was so cold, wet and windy that I really couldn’t appreciate the landscaped parkland…
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