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A pair of scissors is an everyday tool of which there must be at least one in everyone’s house… and they come in all different shapes and sizes used for different things… from dress-making, to food preparation, to craftwork, to opening those wretched sealed packages… I came across a little feature about scissor making…
MoreI think the hours when night changes to day, and day changes to night are very strange when you are outside… the sky seems to take on an odd quality, even if its odd in a nice way, a sunny day disappearing into a pleasant evening. Hamlet talks about ‘witching times’ meaning the deepest darkest […]
MoreSometimes you see two unexpected colours against each other and they just seem to work… I’m not an artist and so I don’t know anything about the theory of colour, and maybe the colours I saw adjacent to each other in the walled garden at Knightshayes Court are a classic match… I saw these clumps […]
MoreKnightshayes Court near Tiverton in North Devon is a stately home under the ownership of the National Trust. There is a wonderful and very interesting house, a shop full of delights, a tearoom, and beautiful gardens. We spent our afternoon having a picnic in the parkland, and then wandered round the walled garden.
MoreGeese have a reputation for being fierce and aggressive, in fact they have been used as watch ‘dogs’ because they can be so fierce and vicious! This friendly foursome came rushing across their paddock to the fence to chat to us, and they had a fine old cackle. The brown ones had gorgeous blue eyes, […]
MoreDon’t you just want to go up this couple of steps, taking care not to slip or trip on the ivy, and don’t you just want to look over the gate and see what is beyond? A neglected cottage, or a pretty garden, loved and cared for, and only this gate no longer used. It […]
MoreWe saw this moth perched on our window sill as we set off to go on a visit. I looks just like a broken off bit of twig, and that is its camouflage! it is called a buff tip moth and apparently is common throughout the K. It must be very good at disguising itself […]
MoreA hundred years ago this tranquil water would have been a filthy toxic brew; it would have been full of the foulest rubbish, industrial waste, effluent… it would have reeked. The air would have been full of smoke; smoke from the factories and hills, smoke from the trains transporting goods to and from the docks, […]
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Lois Elsden 