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Cosy Cotehele
Just come back from a couple of days in Cornwall, staying in a converted engine house up a dead-end, rough track in the middle of the woods. A busy stream rattled by, like white noise. There was bird song, a blue sky and the most wonderful National Trust property sitting high on a perch above…
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February book reviews
I’ve not done very well with books this month. This is a shame because the weather outside is frightful and there’s nothing better than curling up with a good book when the rain is lashing against the windows. There were two novels I abandoned after a couple of chapters and then a three-star which was…
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Nice weather for ducks
Oh, what weather we’re having here in Lush Places. Rain, rain and more rain. And when it’s not raining, it’s grey skies. Dull, dull, dull. It can be foggy here at the best of times. When other places nearby are bathed in sunshine we sit under the misty radar. There’s a kind of microclimate at…
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There’s not mushroom inside
I’m just taking a yellowing copy of Machineries of Joy from my bookcase. It’s a collection of short stories by the master storyteller, Ray Bradbury. I love his small town, big wonder style. Something Wicked This Way Comes is one of my favourite books, a coming-of-age novel where good and evil do battle against the…
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Good morning to the snowdrops
Saw these this morning and I just had to stop to say hello. They didn’t respond but I think they were pleased to see me. For some reason, I was whistling Let ‘Em In by Wings, which sent me down an internet rabbit hole when I got back home, as I wanted to find out…
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Spring is in the air
After a grey, grim old day yesterday, we have blue skies and signs of spring here in West Dorset. There’s mud everywhere and it’s squelchy underfoot but the many puddles are reflecting the changing of the seasons. We’re not there yet but it won’t be long. On my morning walk, I glanced up when I…
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Maddie Grigg 