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fifty
[Cornish garden posy, not quite fifty varieties, but a good number] Looking back on fifty newsletters in fifty words: Glad I started writing again. Glad…
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Jane Brocket
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august
[one of Brian Clarke’s beach boys] I’ve been greatly enjoying August. It is often seen as a dead month, but it has its compensations when spent at home…
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Jane Brocket
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good day sunshine
[sunflowers grown from seed in an allotment bunch] Like sunflowers, I’m heliotropic. I adore sunshine and daylight, and I totally understand why Matisse…
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Jane Brocket
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a zest for lemons
I sometimes volunteer at Kettle’s Yard where the first thing a visitor to the house is invited to notice is a single lemon on a large pewter platter…
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Jane Brocket
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machine matters
I can measure my life in sewing machines. [‘Sewing’ (1913), Hans Heysen] I’ve had five in all, starting with my Nana’s old Singer; it was originally…
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Jane Brocket
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embroidered cloths
[placing and treading on my embroidered cloths] I’ve been cutting up hand-embroidered tablecloths and tray-cloths. Better to stop reading now, if this…
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Jane Brocket
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Karin
[Karin is Reading (1904)] The case of Karin Larsson (1859-1928) is a fascinating one. [Now] She is so very present in Lilla Hytnnäs, the house she…
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Jane Brocket
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