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The weather is foul: day after day of rain, wind and darkness that mean lights on all day. My thoughts turn to bright, frosty days and skating.


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Following a link from the Persephone blog today, I found this picture.


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This afternoon, Wimborne was full of people wandering about dressed in comfortable sandals and shady hats and clutching yellow leaflets. Twelve private gardens were open in aid of Wimborne in Bloom. This is a wonderful opportunity to find a little gem of a garden behind an apparently mundane facade. I didn't manage twelve and of those I saw, one ( Read more... )

I don't grow Carnations, but there are some pictures of lilies and roses here
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Today at the boot sale I bought a cheap print of this picture. It took me ages to Google it as the artist apparently painted several different pictures with the same title, Strickendes Mädchen. Some people would call this chocolate box but I love the concentration on her face, the detail of her hands and the way she holds the yarn. What do you ( Read more... )