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Mown and Grown
The long days yawn ahead. Long and lazy. Pyjama clad, Croc footed I head for the fields with the lark and Boodle. First stop the Cowshed, new doors fresh paint! Actually re-claimed doors but let's...
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Big "Siss"
A few weeks ago I tumbled into Sissinghurst. Tangled, jangled at odds with myself. I cursed my own stupidity, it was a warm mid-summerish mid-morning and I tipped up with coach loads of Garden...
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Sun lit...
We float down sunlight streets And let our hair get stuck On our fingertips Weeds whisper Coaxing us to the grass Wrapping their way through our toes Slick pebbles weigh down your pockets I braid...
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Last of the summer wine
It has been a long generous summer and we have been glad of it, with much of the house exposed to the elements whilst we extend. It has been a long generous summer, so much so I have become suspicious...
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Anemone
I do believe in an every day sort of magic--The inexplicable connectednessWe sometimes experienceWith places, peopleWorks of art and the like;The eerie appropriatenessOf moments of synchronicity;The...
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Winter treasures
I should begin by offering you the heartiest of Seasons Greetings! I adore Christmas, that is I am in search of that feeling of wonder, shooting stars tingling somewhere below my ribcage. Presents...
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A pocket full of Rye...
All my undone actions wander naked across the calendar A band of skinny hunter-gatherers blown snow scattered here and there stumbling toward a future folded in the New Year...RICHARD HOFFMAN December...
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What's new?
Early last Spring, there was a house down a lane. A lovely old house whose timber frame creaked in the wind. A lovely old house full of nooks and curves, oak pegs and wobbly glass nestled into the...
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Teahouse
In a wet jasmine clad greenhouse a steamy cup of green tea...fragrant January at Petersham Nurseries Tea House I like pouring your tea, lifting the heavy pot, and tipping it up, so the fragrant liquid...
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Sleeping Beauty
Arguably one of the least appealing buildings on our plot is the old Nissen Hut. Smothered and choked as it is by a thick vest of evergreen pine, ivy, hydrangea, blackberry, clematis and...
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Egging me on!
These newly lighter, longer evenings are wreaking havoc with the dinner arrangements here Down the Lane. I can't come inside...just need to finish wrestling with this ridiculously rambling rose. Three...
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Drinking in the morning sun...
...Blinking in the morning sun... The light, early...so pure, slaking around the angles of the house and bursting through the window panes...theatrically lighting the kitchen. I stand, transfixed...
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Perch Hill in all it's glory
I have lost count of the number of times I have dragged you around Perch Hill with me. Sorry about that but, in my defence, it is never the same! The garden evolves and develops each year and I for...
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To the Tulips, with teeth! (The Tulip Tattoo).
May! Glorious month, the garden is all dressed for a wedding, the grass is strewn with papery petal fall...and the wind bites and I perpetually wish I had a coat. I had the pleasure of visiting Pashley...
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May...
...I introduce you to some shopping, walking, reading, cooking, washing...in other words the weekend! ...that's all folks! No need for blurb from me I thought! Except to say that I could stare at the...
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Well turned out
The days are lengthening and the grass is romping away, in the wind the fields quiver and team with life. All creatures great and small. May saw "The Turn Out", young lambs and calves put out to graze...
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Norfolk Tale
Norfolk. North Sea facing and home to a cluster of incredible beaches. Timeless open rural landscapes peppered with flint and cob houses edged in red brick. Tidal estuaries and spits and staithes....
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Introducing Horace!
So Horace has come to live with us here at the Lane...but wait, I should start at the beginning... A while ago a kind Uncle gave me this matchbox Morris Minor Traveller. I say "Uncle" that conjures...
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Charleston Farmhouse
Yesterday Virginia and I went to Charleston Farmhouse, we had been threatening to visit together for months! Are you enjoying Life In Squares? It seems to have captured our imaginations, the house...
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Gusts and rust...must be Autumn...
I know it has been an age since I was here with you...I'm sad about that. There are a fistful of posts sliding elusively through my fingers, half formed, half thoughts that never quite made it...I hate...
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Gallivanting and home again...
Hello Hello! Been off gallivanting...Copenhagen in December and Australia in January...since then. Hmmm, not sure, been in the bunker of home I suppose, head down ironing out the travel creases. Oh and...
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Portugal
Lately, when the April skies turn leaden and the wind winds itself up into a bitter, brutal bite up here on the hill, my mind wanders to warmer climes. "To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine"...
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Decorative Living Fair 2016
Being on my doorstep, The Decorative Living Fair is a gift, not only because it is nearby but because Caroline Zoob does have a wonderful knack for putting together the most glorious event. Hedgerow...
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January
It seems a lifetime since January 2016...much has happened, such is the way of things. We began the year with a trip to see the Faraways in Australia. I was brimful of unspoken words and thoughts,...
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As you probably know I haven't posted here in an age! I hope you might pop over to my website here if you'd like to catch up on all things Lane related. Thank you so much for all your support and...
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