Lois Elsden
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Apricots, cherries, currants and berries, plums and gages and melon
apricots white cherries, black cherries white currents black currents, red currents melon strawberries, raspberries black diamond plums greengages, Victoria plums Mrs Beeton’s 1912 edition had colour and black and white plates; this selection of fruit is rather charming, but I can’t find out who the illustrator was. I hadn’t heard of black diamond plums, but […]
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Hearts and flowers…
Before I was married I moved into a new house, a totally new house, an only just built new house. The garden was a dumping ground for the building site, and over the hot summer that I moved in, I dug the whole thing over, making a huge pile of bricks stones and other rubbish I had […]
MoreOn the Axe
It’s been quite a nice day today, but very cold… certainly not a day I would fancy being out on the water, but I am a bit of a wimp! These sailors were setting off down the River Axe to go out to sea in the summer, much more fun than February!
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