I’m enjoying these little signs of spring clustered around the house in tiny vases. This collection on the kitchen table – each vase is only an inch high – contains flowering rosemary, choisya, purple-leafed sage, white cyclamen and a few sprigs of the winter-flowering honeysuckle, Lonicera fragrantissima, that I planted by the gate. And over [...]
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27 JANUARY 2010
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged flowers in house, Georgia O'Keeffe poem, hyacinths, paperwhite narcissi, tiny glass vases, violets on January 27, 2010 | 14 Comments »
19 JANUARY 2010
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged frosty morning, Kathleen Raine poem, paperwhite narcissi on January 19, 2010 | 16 Comments »
The magic of the snow is past, but we are still getting some beautiful frosty mornings down here by the sea. This was sunrise the other day, photographed from the verandah in my pyjamas. Brrr. Back in the warm, the light was quite extraordinary. It’s worth putting up with condensation on the windows for effects [...]
11 JANUARY 2010
Posted in 1, Blogs, eco-building, domestic life, greener living, gardening, tagged Louis Macneice 'Snow', snow on garden, snow on the beach, snowman, tobogganing on January 11, 2010 | 14 Comments »
There has been snow on the beach: a rare and rather magical event. But given that this is a depiction of the weather patterns over the UK in the past few days, perhaps hardly surprising. (Picture by NASA). I have so enjoyed this snow: the way it has transformed even the most mundane landscapes into [...]
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