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Amazing!

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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A cowslip ball

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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Sunset

“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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June is here…

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...

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A 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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