flowersandstripes

Waking up with a hangover from a wonderful wedding the day before.... Exploring Greenwich in the bank holiday sunshine and then a 'phone...

And finally the rain came.... Privacy of rain Rain, A plump splash on tense, bare skin. Rain. All the May leaves run upward, shaking. .... I...

One of our memories of Granny is the colour lilac. It suited her eyes, her grey hair, her whole being. .... 'Her [Galuzina] favourite co...

Thank you to everyone who has blogged so eloquently and passionately about Dorothy Whipple. I absolutely loved High Wages. It was a perfect ...

One of the readings Granny had asked to be read at her funeral. I count it happiness- Ere we go so quickly where we came To gaze ungrieving ...

16th May - Elizabeth and her German Garden '-oh, those lilac bushes! They are all out to-day, and the garden is drenched with scent. I h...

I've found another blossom quote! 'A kind of brilliant green film suddenly broke over the hills - orchids, spiking the dust, rocks c...

Elizabeth and her German Garden begins on the 7th May and within this day we have this quote. No wonder I have so many quotes from this book...

Darling , Dearest Granny died today. 'In these hours when the silence, unfilled by any ceremony, was made almost tangibly oppressive by ...

Dear Friends, Blog posting will be very light, and somewhat irregular in May for dull reasons (thirty school reports to write) and sad reaso...