Before they all go over . . .

Sunday evening. I’ve had a good day in the printing office, enjoying the advantages of its stone walls and cave-like feeling as the temperatures here creep up the dizzy 20s! All sorts of things I should do this evening, I am sure, but I just thought I would...

Mutantcy and a terrible destruction

If you have been here before, you may remember the above photograph, a plant of rich and velvety lushness that had just turned up in one of our ‘pots’. A Mullein of course. Later it was seen to contain at its heart a diamond of great beauty which I also...

Out & About

Frances says (!) It may seem, to some readers of this blog, as though we spend all our time wafting about in meadows filled with cow parsley, cornflowers and apple blossom but here are some dates when we leave the sunny slopes and head off to places where our books...

Happy Birthday to me!

This post is not designed to generate lots of late birthday cards or even good wishes for this particular day . . . for I prefer to think of every day as special. It is rather me rejoicing yet again that I was born at this, the most beautiful, time of year. My mother...

. . . how I wish that this book was one of ours! . . . 6

Here is a book which I not only objectively admire but which gives me tingles down the spine when I turn its pages. I love sharing the joys of it with friends, not least because the tiny ‘run’ means that there will not be many other copies around. It was...

This is positively the last time . . .

. . . I waste your time with this damn plant BUT, five days after the last photo was posted, the extraordinary sheath-like thing (with another on the way, as you can see) has opened to reveal what would be a bit over the top as a Christmas decoration! I promise that...