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A Forgotten Novel That’s Best Left Undiscovered!
It’s not often I give up on book, but I gave up on Hilaire Belloc’s Mr Petre. Actually, I was going to say I’m sorry to admit I didn’t finish this book, but then I thought why should I feel apologetic – after all, I don’t have to read things I don’t like, or can’t…
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Garden Gaze: Seeds, Weeds and Smells
Well, it’s September, and gardens, hedgerows, fields and woods seem to be full of flowers, grasses, trees and bushes, all producing seeds to ensure the survival of the species, so for the this month’s Gardening Gaze I’ve been looking to see what the experts recommend on the subject of Seeds. First up is William Cobbett,…
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Bombs, Boats, and Daffodils…
War Messages: Endpapers in Persephone’s Few Eggs and No Orangesare from a design called London Wall, printed from a fragment of rayon headscard produced by Jacqmar Ltd c.1942. For those of us born after the Second World War it’s hard to imagine what life must have been like during the six grim years of conflict. History books…
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A Misty Moisty Morning…
Burrator Dam, at one end of Burrator Reservoir on Dartmoor.The road runs across it, so you can walk across and look downat the water , which is an awfully long down down! This week we have been to visit my Elder Daughter and her Boyfriend in Plymouth, and had a wonderfully relaxing time being made…
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Short Story Sunday: The Music Box
The Music Box, by Malachi Whitaker, reminded me of DH Lawrence – the setting, that is, not the style. Short story writer Malachi Whitaker. Here we have a sensitive woman and her timid young son living in a grim, bleak, northern mill town, married to a joyless man who works in the quarry and is…
The Book Trunk 