“Go back to your books, to your armchair. Plant your trees, watch them grow. If more people valued home above gold, this world would be a merrier place.”

— Thorin Oakenshield

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Latest Posts

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

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