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Saturday Snapshots of a Warrior Queen
I took this picture of Tamworth Castle a couple of years ago,and some of the trees have been cut back, but it shows themound (said to have been built by Ethelfleda) fairly clearly. I am feeling sad today, because my… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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