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It seems a lifetime since January 2016...much has happened, such is the way of things. We began the year with a trip to see the Faraways in Australia. I was brimful of unspoken words and thoughts, ideas, pent up love for those much missed, much longed for. Love is a cruel mistress for those of us parted by miles and miles but the gift is the the joy of precious momentary togetherness that takes on mythical status once it ends. We savour all the moments, senses sharpened, I find myself furiously scribbling phrases, writing recipes, collecting...always collecting... beyond the physical.<br />
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Musing over my notebook today...the feelings the memories crept back into my phsche. I reach for something more tangible...photographs. We arrived crumpled and achingly tired. To be soothed by the balm of the sweetest welcome, the smallest blonde heads bobbing up from the darkness of their bunks, and encircling our necks. Hugs full of expectation and excitement softened by drowsiness.</div>
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Swept off to the <a href="http://thewhitehousedaylesford.com.au/rooms/the-white-room/">White Room</a> to tumble into the loveliest linen layered haven. It is a beautiful space just around the corner from the Faraways. The first four photographs in this post are a soupicon of the space, I wholly recommend a trip to <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lyndagardener/?hl=en">Lynda Gardener's insta feed</a> for more mouthwatering images of The <a href="http://thewhitehousedaylesford.com.au/rooms/the-white-room/">White Room</a> and <a href="http://theestatetrentham.com.au/">The Estate at Trentham</a>. The rest are all images I snapped during our 3 week sojourn in Melbourne and then on to the Mornington Peninsula.</div>
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And so here I am quietly embracing January 2017. Enjoying these indoor days, lighting candles during the day. It's amazing how rich the light, flickering and fluttering. I am also enjoying this clean January palette, neutralised post quality street, sparkle filled December. Ever since we visited Amsterdam in the depths of winter and all the homes we passed whispered in soft light and always the simplest of vases, flowers on windowsills and clustered on tabletops.</div>
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So here we are, gently stepping into 2017, may it be luminous, </div>
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Being on my doorstep, <a href="http://www.decorativelivingfair.co.uk/">The Decorative Living Fair</a> is a gift, not only because it is nearby but because Caroline Zoob does have a wonderful knack for putting together the most glorious event. Hedgerow spoils spill from vintage jars and buckets...Cowparsley, fox gloves, dead nettle and more sing like corsages pinned onto stall after stall. Bunting and jam jar posies decorate the <a href="http://www.blackbirdcaterers.co.uk/">Blackbird Cafe</a>, The magnificent backdrop is the ripe, rolling green landscape of Sussex.<br />
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Then there are the sellers, each carefully presenting their bounty, beautifully styled vignettes to inspire and delight you. Here are some of my favourites...<br />
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Gorgeous arrangement in the entrance foyer by Sophie Hill, the talent behind <a href="http://www.astilbeandsorrel.com/">Astilbe & Sorrel</a>. You can find Astilbe & Sorrel at the <a href="http://www.thewallednursery.com/index.php">Walled Nursery</a> in Hawkhurst, East Sussex. When I left Sophie had sold out of her gorgeous arrangements! I know she is re-stocking for Saturday, phew!</div>
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Very fond of a bit of re-merchandising! Here at the <a href="http://www.kingjohnsnursery.co.uk/">King John's Nursery</a> Stand. I love the aesthetic that these guys have, the nursery is a real treat to visit plus a gorgeous cafe and shop..the website is fab too, well worth a visit.</div>
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This is Marina Adinolfi's stand, it was my favourite...the colours just sang...really really yearning for that quilt!</div>
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My favourite products were Emma Williams' beautifully bound vintage books. Emma sources classic novels, children's books and other old books with beautiful details. Gold leaf edged pages, incredible colour plates, delightful etchings and then matches beautiful vintage fabrics to bind them.</div>
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It was good to feed my cowparsley obsession! I was married in May and the church was smothered with it...the avenue to the reception was a mile of dust track and swathes of frothy white umbelifers...<br />
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I found myself stumbling into all kinds of good people that I have admired. I was luck enough to catch up with <a href="http://rosehipinthecountry.bigcartel.com/">Rosehip</a> the stand was beautiful and too crammed with customers to show you! Have a look at their gorgeous website, it's lovely. My dear friends from <a href="https://www.facebook.com/howgreennursery/">How Green Nursery</a> were there too. I bumped into Louise from <a href="http://www.loveandlilac.co.uk/">Love & Lilac</a> imagine that, we hadn't seen each other for many a year!<br />
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The gardens at <a href="http://eridgepark.co.uk/">Eridge Park</a> are looking wonderful, I recommend a stroll if you are going to the Fair today. I'll leave you with this ridiculously blowsy peony...</div>
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Lately, when the April skies turn leaden and the wind winds itself up into a bitter, brutal bite up here on the hill, my mind wanders to warmer climes.</div>
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"To those who appreciate wisteria and sunshine" begins the advert in Elizabeth Von Arnims' "Enchanted April."</div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">"She stared. Such beauty; and she there to see it. Such beauty; and she alive to feel it. Her face was bathed in light. Lovely scents came up to the window and caressed her. A tiny breeze gently lifted her hair. Far out in the bay a cluster of almost motionless fishing boats hovered like a flock of white birds on the tranquil sea. How beautiful, how beautiful. Not to have died before this . . . to have been allowed to see, breathe, feel this. . . . She stared, her lips parted. Happy? Poor, ordinary, everyday word. But what could one say, how could one describe it? It was as though she could hardly stay inside herself, it was as though she were too small to hold so much of joy, it was as though she were washed through with light. And how astonishing to feel this sheer bliss, for here she was, not doing and not going to do a single unselfish thing, not going to do a thing she didn't want to do."</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">"All down the stone steps on either side were periwinkles in full flower, and she could now see what it was that had caught at her the night before and brushed, wet and scented, across her face. It was wistaria. Wistaria and sunshine . . . she remembered the advertisement. Here indeed were both in profusion. The wistaria was tumbling over itself in its excess of life, its prodigality of flowering; and where the pergola ended the sun blazed on scarlet geraniums, bushes of them, and nasturtiums in great heaps, and marigolds so brilliant that they seemed to be burning, and red and pink snapdragons, all outdoing each other in bright, fierce colour. The ground behind these flaming things dropped away in terraces to the sea, each terrace a little orchard, where among the olives grew vines on trellises, and fig-trees, and peach-trees, and cherry-trees. The cherry-trees and peach-trees were in blossom—lovely showers of white and deep rose-colour among the trembling delicacy of the olives; the fig-leaves were just big enough to smell of figs, the vine-buds were only beginning to show. And beneath these trees were groups of blue and purple irises, and bushes of lavender, and grey, sharp cactuses, and the grass was thick with dandelions and daisies, and right down at the bottom was the sea. Colour seemed flung down anyhow, anywhere; every sort of colour, piled up in heaps, pouring along in rivers—the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps—and flowers that grow only in borders in England, proud flowers keeping themselves to themselves over there, such as the great blue irises and the lavender, were being jostled by small, shining common things like dandelions and daisies and the white bells of the wild onion, and only seemed the better and the more exuberant for it."</span></div>
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It may not be San Salvatore, nor indeed Italy, but there is no denying <a href="https://www.villaboavista.co.uk/" target="_blank">Villa Boa Vista</a> has a similar life affirming effect on me! I love to wake here, the morning after the journey...open the shutters and gaze out over the roof tops to the wedge of sea glittering in the distance. Pad across the tiled floors into the kitchen and open up the doors to the pool and terrace. Admire the bourgainvillea dripping over the pergola while I wait for the coffee to percolate. Thrust my feet into any shoe and wander up the steps and onto the thin dusty soil where the almonds grow. Dare myself to de-robe and plop into the pool before sleep has taken it's leave..."aaaaaaaaaarrrrghhhhhh!"</div>
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It seems I'm not alone in my affection for the Algarve. Portugal is more popular than ever as a holiday destination. <a href="https://www.villaboavista.co.uk/" target="_blank">Villa Boa Vista</a> or rather Boa Vista Fazenda is a beautiful country villa nestled in the eastern foothills of the Algarve, not far from the historic and mostly untouched Moncarapacho. That wedge of sea in the distance is the view towards the Parque Natural, a mosaic of sand islands, lagoons and beaches. Head west and you will discover the beautiful unspoilt beach that is Praia Marinha near Carvoeiro...<br />
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Then there is the fish...freshly caught and simply pan fried...is there any finer meal? I long to be sandy of foot, crunchy with salt, fist clenched around beach treasure...pausing to take another picture.</div>
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Being a pattern junkie I am forever stopping to photograph another tile, a different flower, washing strung between buildings...you get the picture. It takes a patient companion to tolerate my endless looking and exclamations! Fortunately I have one, a good man. Who once, many moons ago, knelt on the tiles around the pool at <a href="https://www.villaboavista.co.uk/" target="_blank">Boa Vista</a> and asked a question, THE question...<br />
<a href="http://www.purestyleonline.com/aboutus.asp">Jane Cumberbatch</a> of Pure Style fame shares my love for this spot, for more reading and lovely images have a look <a href="http://www.purestyleonline.com/inspiration_view.asp?nInspiration_ID=%7B3530F964-DC30-4573-9995-A055C87DB2DD%7D">here</a><br />
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Time faraway spent with the "Faraways" is a rare treat for us and so we wring every drop of the days...I am etching onto memory plates, writing endless nonsense into my notebook because if I don't I'll lose the essence. Summer days spent on the other side of this earth also seem strangely surreal as though my real life is in suspended animation. </div>
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We stayed in a wonderful Farmstead down on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne. The Faraways stay their often and I visited there myself some years ago. The driveway cuts between orchards of quince, apple, lemons, avocado, plums...heaven! Enough of my rambling...I'll show you...<br />
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I should also say, to my very great joy and endless amazement, I have friends who I discovered here in this on-line magicarium who, I had the very great pleasure of variously visiting, staying with, bumping into! <a href="http://misspenpen.blogspot.co.uk/">Miss Pen Pen</a> and two exceptional cats, Lynda Gardener's <a href="http://thewhitehousedaylesford.com.au/rooms/the-white-room/">The White Room</a> and thanks to my sister in law, discovering the gorgeous <a href="http://www.luccello.com.au/epages/luccello.sf/en_AU/?ObjectPath=/Shops/luccello/Categories/ABOUT_US">l'uccello</a>.<br />
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Today you find me Indulging in all the small details of the table in the hallway outside the boot room. It's a thoroughfare, and I don't often linger here, but today in the half light the heather and the chrysanthemums are quietly singing and so I pause...<br />
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I am indulging my penchant for candlelight, baskets, autumn flowers...natural colours with dusty, rusty pinks...lighting lamps earlier in the day to combat the dimming light and the mist that has swallowed us whole. As the days shorten I long to be home before true inky black arrives here on our hill. Having said that, I never tire of the thrill of seeing, in the distance, the house, or rather the windows lit with amber light as we turn onto the top of the Lane. My heart leaps for home!<br />
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Outside the rain is tumbling and torrential, the gutters splutter and splash and the wind is torturing the last leaves clinging to trees. I listen to it all in the lamplight and send a silent prayer of thanks to the oak frame that wraps around us its back to the black...<br />
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Yesterday <a href="http://www.virginiagriffithjones.com/">Virginia</a> and I went to <a href="http://www.charleston.org.uk/">Charleston</a> Farmhouse, we had been threatening to visit together for months! Are you enjoying <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0649cyj">Life In Squares</a>? It seems to have captured our imaginations, the house was fully booked thanks to the interest the BBC drama has sparked. <a href="http://www.bloomsburyinsussex.org.uk/">Bloomsbury</a> is back!</div>
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Such an atmospheric place...felt their energy...sensed their colours...</div>
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sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-43147144660266773662015-08-04T19:43:00.001+01:002015-08-04T19:43:28.508+01:00Introducing Horace!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So Horace has come to live with us here at the Lane...but wait, I should start at the beginning...<br />
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A while ago a kind Uncle gave me this matchbox Morris Minor Traveller. I say "Uncle" that conjures many connotations I know! But in this case we are talking about an Uncle that belongs to Mr.Lane. This Uncle has helped us to build our "home" together, both physically and metaphorically, he is the epitome of a Good Man.<br />
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This matchbox car is, in fact the replica of his own vintage Morris and so it was a lovely and symbolic gift. There was no great ceremony, he simply pressed it into my palm and whispered that he knew I would love it, he is right, of course I do.<br />
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That was just over 2 years ago, this week we took possession of Horace.Yep! Horace The Morris...<br />
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He has been settling into life here Down the Lane, slotting in alongside the Nissen Hut...<br />
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At night Horace and Fergie share the bays in the barn, Horace is not overly keen on the rain!</div>
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Horace smells, in a really good way! Horace smells of my childhood, bouncing around the North Yorkshire and County Durham border with Magpie in her grey Morris Minor 1000. To sit inside and be overwhelmed by the smell of the leather lined doors and seats, the air scented by a whiff of eau de petrol seeping in from the engine...aaahhh, a little moment of happiness and pure regression, unlocked memories long since lost in the vault.</div>
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We are learning each other at the moment, Horace and I. Every morning I look out of the window and there he is looking directly back at me...I feel a swell of affection and gratitude coming in like a high tide...mostly I feel honoured to be entrusted with his future. Mr Lane says I make the gears sing, apparently that's not necessarily a good thing!</div>
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I am drawn to the ambiguous nature of the word Uncle, In different cultures Uncle simply means male relative. "Little Grandfather" Kin, Father. In my case this "Uncle" is simply mine through the serendipity of marriage. It is immaterial to me that we do not share blood...the tie is strong, the love and affection I feel is entirely due to the wonderful man he is. When he looks across at me with those kind and slightly laughing eyes it is implicit, less is more...</div>
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On the other side of the world the littlest Faraways are developing a fascination for classic cars thanks to Gently, Endeavour and Sylvanian Families. I long for the day when they catch their first lungful of Horace...all jumbled in together on the back seat...one day my loves...</div>
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Norfolk. North Sea facing and home to a cluster of incredible beaches. Timeless open rural landscapes peppered with flint and cob houses edged in red brick. Tidal estuaries and spits and staithes. Sailing boats and dinghies, clanking in the wind. Large rambling estates dotted throughout and consequently gardens to discover. The weather rattles through changing the mood...I love that.</div>
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Hovering in a summery state of inaction.</div>
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The days are lengthening and the grass is romping away, in the wind the fields quiver and team with life. All creatures great and small. May saw "The Turn Out", young lambs and calves put out to graze for the first time. It is a joyful, bucolic scene, one I have come to know and love these last few years here on our hill. There is something timeless about the land being grazed. The verges are frothing with cow parsley and studded with clover and vetch. Walking takes me to forgotten fields and corners less trodden as I try to check fences and gate posts are fit for purpose! Some are, and some are not, so the cycle of repairing and renewal begins. Boodle accompanies me and keeps watch over the flock, come with us if you have a minute...</div>
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<br />sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-28163628553999015742015-05-10T19:07:00.001+01:002015-05-10T19:07:21.790+01:00May......I introduce you to some shopping, walking, reading, cooking, washing...in other words the weekend!<br />
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No need for blurb from me I thought! Except to say that I could stare at the velvety owl fluff at that sits next to the Boodle's ears for days...and never stop feeling the heart swelling choke in my throat when I do...</div>
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sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-12872553571640952442015-05-03T08:18:00.001+01:002015-05-03T08:47:30.497+01:00To the Tulips, with teeth! (The Tulip Tattoo).May! Glorious month, the garden is all dressed for a wedding, the grass is strewn with papery petal fall...and the wind bites and I perpetually wish I had a coat.<br />
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I had the pleasure of visiting <a href="http://www.pashleymanorgardens.com/">Pashley Manor</a> this week, the annual Tulip Festival is in full swing. What a pageant it is. I am not sure that I "like" order, military rows, tulips on the parade ground but there's no denying it is a spectacle. As I look at the perfectly spaced planting and the harmonised colours I am strangely reminded of a military Tattoo. I fancy I can hear the cymbals clash as the band marches in perfect unison.<br />
Let's begin in the <a href="http://www.blomsbulbs.com/home">Bloms</a> marquee. Trestles set with glass vases filled with specimen tulips, arranged by colour.<br />
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I like tulips with teeth! spiked edges, articulated cabbagey petals, parrots in other words!<br />
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But not exclusively, I have a real crush on this ravishing tulip, dusky terracotta with hints of pinky lilac, as seen in the Long Toms at Perch Hill.La Belle Epoque.<br />
Outside in the garden I am drawn less by the amazing massed beds and more to the urns, I like the idea that a garden urn is a giant vase of flowers.<br />
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Love this greenhouse! Bit more than a greenhouse in truth...a passionflower is clinging to a lattice of canes and there are lovely sculptures nestled betwixt scented geraniums and other tender specimen.<br />
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The house is devastatingly handsome, all timber framed Medieval to the front and Georgian symmetry to the back, dripping in jewels, wisteria drops and clematis stars.<br />
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There is a Corps de Ballet analogy to be made too...and if I was ever in doubt enter the black swan stage left...<br />
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Note to self: When visiting Tulip Tattoo/Ballet always wear another layer...the wind has teeth!<br />
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PS. I rather fell in love with this wonderfully stoic lady taking tea in the arctic breeze and thought how brilliantly English! When I said hello I was reminded how foolish it is to assume, she was Dutch! Of course she was, we were in a tulip garden.</div>
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I have lost count of the number of times I have dragged you around Perch Hill with me. </div>
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Sorry about that but, in my defence, it is never the same! </div>
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The garden evolves and develops each year and I for one am always delighted by either some tiny new detail or the larger landscaping projects. </div>
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I love the subtle changes to The Oast Garden, the tulip combinations in the Long Toms are, this year my favourite ever.</div>
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The new rose garden, situated in the old courtyard where the cold frames and a wonderful old wisteria lived is fantastic, and to see it mature over the coming seasons will be a joy.</div>
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...Blinking in the morning sun...<br />
The light, early...so pure, slaking around the angles of the house and bursting through the window panes...theatrically lighting the kitchen.<br />
I stand, transfixed looking at the detail and the shadows.<br />
As the minutes tick past, so the spotlight shifts elsewhere...<br />
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These newly lighter, longer evenings are wreaking havoc with the dinner arrangements here Down the Lane. I can't come inside...just need to finish wrestling with this ridiculously rambling rose. Three evenings in a row I have stubbornly stood, back to the Westerly Biter, dead heading ancient hydrangea bushes whilst slowly losing the feeling in my fingers. Three evenings in a row we have eaten a boiled egg for dinner!<br />
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It feels so extraordinarily good to see flowers again! So much is waking up every day now, blink and you miss something going from tight bud to blossom or leaf. The house is clad in all sorts of inherited wonders, I am finally able to anticipate, knowing the rhythm of the seasons here on our hill better each passing year. </div>
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The house is swathed by a beech hedge scarf. I love the stubborn faded leaves, dry and rustling in the wind. Often still refusing the new buds long after the cow parsley lace has opened. The bank under hedge, roadside, is studded with yellow primrose stars and purple vinca that has made a break for wildom under the hedge and down the lane.</div>
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I don't know why, but I like daffodils at Easter. If Easter is late or Spring is early and the two do not coincide I feel strangely cheated.This year all is well, the daffs huddling around the trunks of trees and decorating the fence line are chiming on kew!<br />
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I am writing this and thinking about all the patterns implied by the shadows and the limited palette...<br />
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Arguably one of the least appealing buildings on our plot is the old Nissen Hut. Smothered and choked as it is by a thick vest of evergreen pine, ivy, hydrangea, blackberry, clematis and buddleia...woven to it's corrugated sides. Or at least it would be if it were stripped bare. As it is I often look across and imagine it is a giant upturned birds nest. Or, perhaps it is an enormous abandoned Gypsy Caravan gone "Haversham". What would happen if we did, strip it bare? I suspect it might simply give up the ghost, remain there momentarily before heaving an enormous creaky sigh and collapsing inwards in a cloud of dust.<br />
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It is also the source of endless conjecture..."one day we will....." "I wonder who built it?" We know that once there were two side by side, the brick footings are still visible in Home Field. "What did they use them for?"<br />
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Nissen Huts were first produced during the First World War. Major Peter Norman Nissen a mining engineer and inventor developed three prototype semi-cylindrical huts. They were used extensively in the Second World war for both storage and accommodation, although not exclusively there are examples of them being used as <a href="http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/eastmainland/italianchapel/">churches</a> and, after the war as family homes.<br />
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They are now in decline, ours must be at least 70 years old, perhaps older. There are lots of derelict examples dotted around the countryside, all well camouflaged by years of weathering.<br />
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Whilst trundling around the alternative reality that is <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sarahjanelane/down-the-lane/">Pinterest</a> the other day I spotted this...<br />
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I love these miniatures by <a href="http://culturehall.com/antonia_dewhurst/biography;jsessionid=3BA3E520623638909D86E394B0C7652F">Antonia Dewhurst</a>, they are scale models of buildings made up using digital images of the original. Something in me shares Antonia's fascination with the sense of "Home" and belonging.<br />
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Oh! and then, I discovered <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/162200024055669228/">this</a> and thought..."One Day!"</div>
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The Lane Man, at some distant point in the future when he reads this, will snort at my whimsy. The current scene is populated by machinery, logs, oil cans, wardrobes. rope, chairs, kitchenalia, paint pots, scalextric, fairy lights and ivy vines snaking through the cracks in the corrugated iron roof!<br />
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And the truth? Well the truth is I love it as it is...warts and all. After 4 and a half years I wouldn't change it..."One Day...." seems a very long way away!<br />
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January...the cleansing, the cold, the cloudy, The threshold of the new...for clarity tea, I drink tea in comforting bucketloads. Cupping my hands and musing what might be...<br />
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Jeska at <a href="http://lobsterandswan.com/">Lobster and Swan</a> posted about a brilliant tea shop, VRAC, in Lewes<a href="http://lobsterandswan.com/my-new-favourite-place-vrac-tea-shop-lewes/"> here</a> the teas are exquisite...I am longing to try the Primavera...<br />
"<span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #3e3e3e; font-family: Cousine, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; orphans: 3; widows: 3;">An enchanting and invigorating blend of olive leaf, orange blossom and Spanish mountain thyme. From the same garden as the lemon verbena and harvested last month. Can’t get more vibrant than this!"</span><br />
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I am smiling at myself, as, I looked back to last year 's posts, early February and there I was...<a href="http://sarah-janedownthelane.blogspot.co.uk/2014_02_01_archive.html">Petersham Nursery!</a> such a creature of ritual...</div>
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<br />sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-66898448257698459882015-01-13T12:39:00.000+00:002015-01-13T12:40:20.708+00:00What's new?Early last Spring, there was a house down a lane. A lovely old house whose timber frame creaked in the wind. A lovely old house full of nooks and curves, oak pegs and wobbly glass nestled into the hill. Such a friendly solid house but with a little dark kitchen...<br />
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We first viewed this house on a wet and windy November morning 5 years ago. Ellie Goulding was singing ..."This will always be my home..." as we turned into the drive and the hairs on the back of my neck stood up. "I'll end my days here" I thought...then I shook myself, cursing my fairytale mind...To the left a little orchard, 6 or 7 fruit trees and a row of crab apples. At the corner an enormous fir tree, stories high. At the top of the drive a ramshackle group of derelict farm buildings. "I want it!" I mouthed to him as we stood in the cowshed with the roof leaking into puddles on the concrete floor looking out across the field we now call "Rounders".</div>
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The house, well it's all we ever wanted. Oak beams, inglenook fireplaces, wonky windows...but light...all the rooms are light, walls full of leaded lights, an oriel window in the hall...but the kitchen...</div>
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And so, last March, 4 years later, the digger rolled in and we began. I remember feeling excited and anxious. Having seen reels of Messrs. <a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/grand-designs">McCloud</a> and<a href="http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-restoration-man"> Clarke</a> I knew my naive exhilaration would soon become stress and ultimately tears, and I couldn't quite see the end but I dived in unabashed.<br />
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And I can report my earlier statement about the stress and the tears was completely accurate, but the end has come and gone and I am writing this from the end of our longed for and much anticipated kitchen island!<br />
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Gilly at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WoodleaCraftDesign">Woodlea Craft & Design</a><br />
Pen at <a href="http://misspenpen.blogspot.co.uk/">Cottage Industry</a><br />
Polly at <a href="http://follyandglee.bigcartel.com/">Folly&Glee</a><br />
Penny at<a href="http://www.le-petit-jardin.com/"> Le Petit Jardin</a><br />
Rose at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Butlers-Emporium/256779904357870">Butlers Emporioum</a><br />
and last but not least the gorgeous kitchen itself, all hand made by the wonderful Nathan Levick at <a href="http://levickjorgensen.com/">LevickJorgensen</a><br />
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To coin a very hackneyed phrase, building something is a journey and an education. I loved sourcing reclaimed Tudor bricks, our old oak beam, limestone flags, marble, basalt etc, You discover how resilient you are, as despite your best efforts there are always delays and budgets are stretched beyond your wildest dreams.<br />
Our kitchen was finished on December 22nd and the home team rolled into town on 23rd!<br />
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And so at last, here we are!<br />
Just you and me and the Boodle...it's quiet, no workmen...<br />
bliss<br />
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-->sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-31006362656733127102015-01-01T08:50:00.001+00:002015-01-01T08:50:19.451+00:00A pocket full of Rye...All my undone actions wander<br />
naked across the calendar<br />
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A band of skinny hunter-gatherers<br />
blown snow scattered here and there<br />
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stumbling toward a future<br />
folded in the New Year...<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">RICHARD HOFFMAN December 31st</span><br />
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New Year makes me melancholy...I find myself wondering if I wrung enough out of the year that's dying. Did I try hard enough, did I appreciate enough...what did I learn? Luckily there is a Birthday to be celebrated in our house on New Year's Eve, thank goodness, as I am much more myself when there is love to be showered on beloveds.</div>
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We have been chasing the East Sussex coastline these last few days...low slung sun...shards of light...lungs filled with icy air...the Downs, the Marshes...It's become something of a tradition.<br />
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Resolutions? No...I simply want to "taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain..." <span style="font-size: xx-small;">SYLVIA PLATH</span></div>
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...And as for those undone actions I mentioned earlier...let me remedy one right now...</div>
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a heartfelt <span style="color: #76a5af;"><b>THANKYOU</b></span> for taking the time to read this and for your kindness in visiting The Lane in 2014.</div>
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I adore Christmas, that is I am in search of that feeling of wonder, shooting stars tingling somewhere below my ribcage. Presents are great, but "that" feeling is peculiar to Christmas and I look for ward to it year in year out. When I hear the first Christmas Carol in early December the taper is lit.Sitting on the top deck of a big red bus as dusk falls and Christmas lights sparkle into life. One Sunday morning earlier in December I was captivated by a short clip of a glowing fire...</div>
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...posted by the deliciously lovely <a href="http://www.gilfox.com/">Gil Fox</a>, maker of beautiful hats, corsages, hair pins and fripperies. </div>
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A couple of hours, a muddy dog walk and glorious bowl later...I arrive at <a href="http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/">Great Dixter</a> Christmas Fair.</div>
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Inside the Yeoman's Hall is a cornucopia of loveliness<a href="http://merchantandmills.com/"> Merchant and Mills</a>, <a href="http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/">Persephone Books</a>, <a href="http://www.folkathome.com/">Folk at Home</a>, <a href="http://www.gilfox.com/">Gil Fox Hats</a>, Freight by Helene Adamczewski, <a href="http://www.marthaandedskitchen.co.uk/">Martha and Ed's Kitchen</a>, <a href="http://warpandweftstyling.com/the-shop.html">Warp and Weft Styling </a>. I KNOW, so special, Gil's stand looked gorgeous, her beautiful colours against the wooden panelling.</div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">The inexplicable connectedness</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-size: large;">The eerie appropriateness</span></div>
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sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-68028969912096419612014-09-28T11:11:00.001+01:002014-09-28T11:51:33.006+01:00Last of the summer wine<div style="text-align: center;">
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It has been a long generous summer and we have been glad of it, with much of the house exposed to the elements whilst we extend. It has been a long generous summer, so much so I have become suspicious of it. Like too much pudding its a tiny bit sickly and cloying.It is weighing heavy, time to move on. Perhaps I am simply describing my mood? I want the Autumn winds to blow...the leaves to turn and tumble and the last of the builders to trundle down the drive and disappear into the mist hanging on the hill.<br />
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September has been slow moving but never dull. Magpie flew off to the Faraways for three weeks and they seemed an eternity. I was reminded how much I love this eccentric Island of ours as the tears of relief rolled the morning Scotland said we would not be parted. I managed to slide off to Norfolk for a weekend with my dearest girlfriends, we stood arm in arm in a cornfield watching fireworks fly into the pitch. And my heart was full when I saw a bowls match being played with great gusto between two teenage boys and two senior gentlemen, the respect shown to one another by both teams was joyful to watch.</div>
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Whilst I have been busy choosing Tudor bricks, Kent pegs and English oak the garden has relaxed into a semi wild haven, there are spiders webs and long tendrils of green curls wrapped around things they oughtn't. I should feel guilty about the wildness but instead I am enchanted by it. The drive is a builders yard and so the roses bolting across the weatherboard feel anarchic and I approve! And all the while the hydrangeas are quietly developing their Autumn colour palette.</div>
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Coaxing us to the grass</div>
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Wrapping their way through our toes</div>
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Slick pebbles weigh down your pockets</div>
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I braid sunshine into your hair</div>
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You’re glittering</div>
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I sew sunshine onto your skin</div>
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Ribbons that glow warm</div>
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The hum of the wind</div>
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Butterfly, butterfly</div>
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What an amazing string of summer days we are having... set with a sapphire drenching courtesy of Bertha...</div>
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All these images are from my "<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/sarahjanelane/summertime-and-the-living-is-easy/">Summertime....</a>" board on <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/sarahjanelane/">pinterest</a>. </div>
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1,<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/toc/24231783/in/photostream/">Sirince</a> 2,<a href="http://catalog.baycrews.co.jp/pc/iena1402.html#n2">Baycrews</a> 3,<a href="http://bferry.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/without-entertaining-another-thought/">Brian W Ferry</a> 5.<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/anastasiaglebova/5807702379/">Anastasia Glebova</a></div>
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The poem isn't credited, I found it on the<a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/349521621053133143/"> i gigi general store</a> pinterest page I'd love to know who penned it, any ideas?</div>
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with love from a sun drenched, wind swirled Lane!</div>
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In the arched brick entrance, notes from the head gardener written onto a slate with single blooms arranged in a lovely wooden stand. Terracotta pots labeled in chalk...simple and honest, I make a mental note to do this myself...instead of a gift tag.You can read more from the gardeners <a href="http://sissinghurstcastle.wordpress.com/">here</a>.<br />
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Garden and buildings converge at Sissinghurst to create a beautiful English symphony of brickwork, oak timbers, hung tiles all festooned with foliage and flower. They heighten one another.<br />
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I saw something of Vita in this statuesque visitor, perfectly attired visitor.<img height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxRzEXzRG5B0FzpDNx3gREdjfBaPUF7l11t8FTufVI7SvPxyqEVtybuc6ZM9iihVvxM_DcQ44MZeRCtlhNX_c3EbdG5r-Q5nf3TytapObUsWX6hyphenhyphennz-tUaW5BK-__LeC79ev7QeAyWgbw/s1600/Something+Vita.jpg" width="410" /></div>
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Heady? Yes! I scuttled away from the madding crowd and headed for the giant archway wondering how Adam Nicolson and Sarah Raven had progressed their vision of reinstating the kitchen garden. The view through is bucolic indeed...<br />
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A walk past a meadow brimful with sweet grass and dozing lambs brings me to a fully formed and large kitchen garden with flowers for cutting...hooray...<br />
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Just glorious to see big Siss looking so fantastic!</div>
I consider <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sissinghurst-castle/">Sissinghurst</a> the elder sister to my other favourite gardens <a href="http://www.greatdixter.co.uk/">Great Dixter</a> and of course<a href="http://www.sarahraven.com/customer/pages/visit-the-garden"> Perch Hill.</a><br />
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My head is swirling with iris and rose scented joy...summertime breezes whisper in my ear.</div>
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Inhaling deeply I head for home.</div>
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~x~</div>
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sarah-jane down the lanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01052558538802829343noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4169173463646061359.post-59241958041710684282014-07-17T16:15:00.000+01:002014-07-17T16:15:18.353+01:00Mown and Grown<div style="text-align: center;">
The long days yawn ahead. </div>
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Long and lazy. </div>
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Pyjama clad, Croc footed I head for the fields with the lark and Boodle.</div>
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First stop the Cowshed, new doors fresh paint! </div>
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Actually re-claimed doors but let's not quibble it's too early...</div>
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The fields are humming already. Choirs of insects sing ~ the grasses sway. The dew drops balance like pearls of sweat, the flowers tangle with the grass, no-one is sure who came with who to this dance.</div>
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Where the field runs into the garden fringes it seems to be beckoning the roses, "go wild!"</div>
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And the long day yawns ahead. </div>
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The fields are "half-cut!" Drowsy and swoon inducing is the scent of a fallen wildflower meadow. Sorrel, Sweet Vernal, Birdsfoot Trefoil, Tufted Vetch, Clover, seeds and husks all jumbled like a giant bowl of nature's pot-pourri. It smells so sweet...honeydew, golden mead. I think it may be the greatest tea I'll never taste. The tractor drowns out the insects. Cutting long into the evening and the dark.</div>
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Dusk is purple and gold. I head for the fields with Sauvignon and Boodle.</div>
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We yawn, the long day stretches behind us. </div>
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Food for the winter.</div>
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I suspect I am talking to myself, but should you happen upon this post "Hello! Hello!"</div>
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I have been, and continue to be "here" Down the Lane. We are building a new piece of Lane which, whilst exciting, is also utterly terrifying and consuming. I promise to share all with you once we are respectable! In the meantime sending summery greetings or winter greetings to my Faraway friends!</div>
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PS If you are interested in finding out more about native grasses and meadow flowers, <a href="http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/grasslands">The Wildlife Trust</a> is an excellent resource.<br />
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