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What a Blessing it is to Love Books – and Gardens
The cover on my 1992 Virago editionbears a detail from Vase aux Anemones, 1942, by Marevn (Maria Morobieff) This week I have been busy in the garden, trying to restore some kind of order by pulling up weeds, which always reminds me of Persephone, because in the version of the myth I read as a…
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Saturday Snapshots In A ‘Royal’ Village
This week’s Saturday Snaphots were taken in Newton Regis, which claims to be the most northerly village in Warwickshire, and if you think they don’t look very seasonal that’s because they were taken back in April, when my elder daughter and I were testing her SatNav by deliberately getting lost… I love stumbling across places…
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A Chinese Puzzle
My copy of The Good Earth, with a postcard bookmarkfeaturing part of a avaguely Chinese-looking tree I picked up The Good Earth, by Pearl S Buck, in a charity shop, ages and ages ago, because I was curious about the book. I started reading it several times, but kept putting it back on the shelf…
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Saturday Snapshots From Paris
This time last weekend I was in Paris – my mother and I enjoyed a four-day break there, and noticed once again how green the city is, and how much the French love their parks. Everywhere you go there are streets and squares lined with trees, and there are beautiful, tiny parks and public gardens…
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Down With Housework!
Doing The Mending: Each chapter heading in How To Run Your Home Without Helpis illustrated with a lovely little line drawing Housework, as those who know me will confirm, has never been one of my accomplishments, and the Man Of The House is equally unenthusiastic about domestic activities. ‘Lived-in’ is how people describe our home.…
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