15 JANUARY 2009

So this is what those ‘Paperwhite’ narcissi have been up to in just a week – you can see the contrast with the picture at the end of the last post. On a warm day they can fill our entire open-plan living area with their scent. I first saw them grown like this, on pebbles [...]

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21 DECEMBER 2008

I’ve been delaying posting again till I had good recent pictures; and delayed taking pictures because either the light was poor or the house was untidy – or both. But today after lunch the light was just so beautiful – and on this, the shortest day of the year, so magical – that I ran [...]

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25 SEPTEMBER 2008

Embarking on an ambitious building project such as ours involves keeping the faith. Holding the vision that the finished result will be worth all the chaos and confusion and expense. That the piles of wood and builders’ rubbish outside the kitchen door will one day be a garden full of flourishing fruit and vegetables, flowers [...]

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