27 JANUARY 2010

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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1 JANUARY 2009

A New Year’s Day posting, mainly of pictures. The sun rising on Christmas morning, through the porch window…. and the light passing through the “birdcage” sitting room into the open space between the carriages where we have the tree. I love the rituals of Christmas; dressing the tree with the same decorations – some inherited, [...]

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