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A Garden by Moonlight
Right, here is this month’s instalment from Elizabeth von Arnim’s The Solitary Summer, which I was going to post tomorrow, since one of the ‘entries’ is for June 16. However, tomorrow is my Saturday Snapshots day, so today we will enjoy Elizabeth’s garden, and her reflections on life, the universe and everything – all of…
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Love, Housework and Happy Endings
My 1996 Penguin edition of The RoseRevived, with its lovely cover paintedby Pamela Kay There are those who dismiss Katie Fforde because she is a writer of romantic fiction, but all I can say is, they don’t know what they’re missing. And I’m not going to describe her as a guilty pleasure because firstly, it’s…
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Lonely Londoners
On a grim winter evening, when it had a kind of unrealness about London, with a fog sleeping restlessly over the city and the lights showing in the blur as if it is not London at all, but some strange place on another planet, Moses Aloetta hop on a number 46 bus at the corner…
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A House-Husband and a Working Woman
When my brother and I were very young, my mother used to turn the dining room lino into a skating rink, or the frozen Arctic wastes, and we would slide across the floor… it was years later that I realised this not only kept us happy, but also got the linoleum polished with the minimum…
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A Right Royal Knit-Wit (Saturday Snapshot)
And now for something completely different for this week’s Saturday Snapshot… a Not The Jubilee Knitted Queen! I spotted the pattern in Fiona Goble’s Knit Your Own Royal Wedding (published last year by Ivy Press) and decided she would be perfect as Alan Bennett’s book-loving monarch in The Uncommon Reader, but I altered her a…
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