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Yesterday I wrote about visiting Will, my optician, and in the course of my eye examination he mentioned a writer he very much liked, Mary Russell Mitford who I had never heard of before. “Now we have...
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I recently came across Mary Russell Mitford, my optician mentioned her to me, and I now have her little book, ‘Our Village’. I was looking through what she wrote for a day in May, when she and some...
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“What a sunset! how golden! how beautiful! The sun just disappearing, and the narrow liny clouds, which a few minutes ago lay like soft vapoury streaks along the horizon, lighted up with a golden...
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The first of June… the blossom is blowing off the horse chestnuts and falling like snow, like flakes of snow swirling in the biting wind… yes, it’s June. As a friend of mine said, the wind is blowing...
View ArticleA cowslip ball, again
I wrote about lovely cowslips the other day, and mentioned as I did so that I thought I had written about them before… and yes, I had. Following on from an interesting conversation about a little known...
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