flowersandstripes

'Miss Marriot tying up the clematis and wearing a dress so flowery that many foiled bees buzzed angrily round her for a moment before go...

After the dark days earlier in the week some flowers. 'All autumn Mrs. Parmenter had run out between the showers and picked the asters...

'It was before lunch on a dark January day in the Ramsays' country cottage in Sussex. Just how dark January could be, Mrs Ramsay ref...

We all travelled home on Sunday for a farewell lunch for Pops. Tomorrow he leaves for three months volunteering in Palestine with EAPPI .  ...

Having had a glorious rest I'm now back into the commuting. My journey is fine, even better if it could be a little shorter. It's op...

Ah the frippery side of Virago - but yet always surrounded and linked to deeper thoughts and feelings. 'Mrs Blenkinsop at once replies ...

Yesterday "... out for a walk together one late afternoon when the sun was hanging, a dark-red ball, in a sky which seemed hazed with b...

A Bank Holiday quote for today. One of Laura's daydreams in One Fine Day is to take her daughter away for the day to the seaside. To run...

One Fine Day - Laura is having a cup of tea and cake in her local cafe. There is only seed cake left. 'toothsome ghosts of food kept flo...

The descriptions of the gardens, the flowers, the countryside in One Fine Day are sown throughout the book. Here are some of my favourite......

After our glorious sunny weekend it seems apt to be posting this today. When reading this novel the English summer seemed a life time away, ...