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Simply..a special date....

4/5/2019

..with myself.

Best china and linen napkin, good food and wine, real coffee, chocolates, a card of two marvellous women and a good book.

I am reading my way through all the novels by William Maxwell. This one is So Long, See You Tomorrow.

Have you been on a special date lately?

Or read a particulary good book?

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Simply..matching....

3/5/2019

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Flowers to match the spring pillowcase make me smile.

It's the little things..

What can you put on your bedside table that will make you smile?

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Simply..a gardening day....

2/5/2019

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The swallows have arrived!

Sunny and dry for the first grass cut of the year - front, back and the path to the shore, deciding which bits to let grow into mini-meadows (you can change the shape a little each year which I like to do), edging and general tidying, getting tid of some rubbish, some minor repairs - a very satisfying gardening day.

Tonight a heavy shower to refresh it all.

You can see the trees which screen my view of the felling in the forest, and clematis Freda is doing it's decorative thing around the study window...

I hope you've had a satisfying day, whatever you have been doing.

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Simply..each time....

1/5/2019

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..one of these trees hit the forest floor the huge CRUMP reverberated through the house.
The larch trees, some infected by phytophthora, have been felled in the last couple of weeks. They are opposite the house and it is quite a shock to see them gone from the skyline as they were 80 - 100 feet tall and I really liked them, as did the crows, red squirrels and siskins.

I'm really glad that there are a number of deciduous trees between the house and this area of the forest - beech, willow, sycamore, horse chestmut and holly screen me from the scene! More felling is planned. It is commercial forest...

We'll probably get more bluebells.

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