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Fancy a London garden mooch?
There are some beautiful, interesting, inspiring, almost secret gardens in London. I did a virtual tour of them a couple…
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Flowers in the Fish Factory
On a recent holiday to Sweden, we were lucky enough to stay in a unique bed and breakfast at Edshultshall…
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A garden and a library….
That’s all you need, according to Cicero, and I’ve just had a joyful residency in both! The Women’s Library at…
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Time travelling down tunnels with HG Wells at Uppark House
See this photograph… not really a garden, I admit, but it’s the part of the tunnel that leads from the…
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Nine bean-rows, friends and a poetry exchange
I am lucky enough to be involved with the Poetry Exchange, an organisation which pops up in interesting places and…
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Scientists in the Garden of Love – Bologna
The Bologna Botanic Garden or Orto Botanico (like everything, it sounds better in Italian) has been a centre for…
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Spring, lorries, Sadlers Wells, champagne and soil
Spring came on a lorry last night Or so it felt, as we walked through balmy unbowed London to see…
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Crossing the bridge at Compton Verney
When I say I love Lancelot Brown, I don’t mean it in the sense of ‘I deeply admire his work.’…
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Have you seen….
I don’t want to lose you all forever, but I’m also aware I haven’t been here as much as I’d…
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We wrote a poem on a leaf…
I’m just back from a glorious weekend teaching creative writing with Anna Robertshaw from Freestyle Yoga Project, who was teaching…
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Making Patterns in Vietnam – a prose poem and a song
To being with it was the uniformity that gets you. You feel as if the patterns on the hillside were reflecting…
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Listen, says the labyrinth
This is a post in which I not only review a book about labyrinths but show you how to draw one…. so I should issue…
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On a day so beautiful even the trees danced…
We had a picnic lunch on a log under this tree today, and I looked up to see the branches…
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Come and write with me…
Come and indulge your senses with a Herbal Infused Poetry Workshop at the beautiful Physic Garden at Westgate Gardens, Canterbury…
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Narcissus Garden – a post especially for Sarahs
On a recent visit to Stockholm, we caught an exhibition of Yayoi Kusama’s work, and fell in love particularly with…
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Stairway to heaven….
We found the real stairway to heaven recently… and then the day after we climbed it, we read about the court case Led…
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Luckily birds don’t know they are tweeting…
… because they might stop at 140 characters then. And that would be far too short. Turn your volume up…
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A garden girl in Paris…
(with apologies to John Denver) Three nights in Paris, bucket loads of rain, cafes, people watching, a bit of shopping, cake…
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Gold Medal for the prettiest churchyard ever
If there was such an award, I feel it should go St Giles on The Hill in Norwich. Even from…
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Allotment Notes 1
Hello Blossom! Looking at all the fruit trees in blossom on the allotments made my heart sing… BLOSSOM! But then…
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Garden notes 1
They are like three sisters, my apple trees, holding each other, spreading blossom like secrets, and as I sit…
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A Festival in ‘our’ Garden – The Wealden Literary Festival
Get creative and win tickets to the first Wealden Literary Festival Kent photographers and writers of all ages are…