I have been at Calke Abbey in Leicestershire on a National Trust working holiday.
1. St Pancras Station with its smokey blue metalwork and glass through which a clear sky shines.
2. Coming to a place in the dark and catching glimpses of a long avenue, a huge house and a red-brick farm.
3. Meringue nests with cream and raspberries.
Open space, weather and turkey oak.
1. Even a small bag of books given to Oxfam has opened up space on our shelves for new books that we might want to read. 2. 'This weathe...
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1. Stirring the brewing coffee to break the floating crust and bring up the crema. 2. We have donuts to give the children at teatime. 3. Th...
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1. An enormous fat bumble bee at work. She is so bulky that she can knock dead blossoms out of the way as she gets right in to the new jasmi...
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1. The shortest night and the longest day. I was up at Wellington Rocks with Anna, Paul and Jason. We couldn't see the sun through the m...