flowersandstripes

World Book Day at school. One of those warm fuzzy moments. A lovely warm afternoon, 500 three-eleven year olds dressed up, parading around t...

Whilst walking around Ham House the other weekend, as one does, the lawn was awash with daisies. I knew I'd read a good daisy quote rece...

I've just finished reading Penelope Fitzgerald's The beginning of spring. As hoped there was a spring quote. "the first sign ...

This weekend has just been glorious so this seems a perfect Monday post. "The most thrilling day of the year, the first real day of S...

Yes the boxes of school files keeps coming. Scribbled in the corner of an 'A' Level Classical Civilization file was this poem. I re...

The spring onslaught continues with this e.e. Cummings poem. Spring is like a perhaps hand (which comes carefully out of Nowhere) a...

And now to spring in Russia. " He reflected again that he thought of history, of what is called the course of history, not in the acc...

Now to America and as it's the month of March it had to be from the March family. 'As spring came on, a new set of amusements beca...

I have a whole collection of quotes on spring and what's wonderful is they are all from different countries. At the beginning of the mon...

It's International Women's Day today and I'd been thinking of what to post from what I've read this year. It came down to ei...