Easter Day: through a bedroom window
Apr. 21st, 2019 09:46 am
I always mentally misquote St John as, ‘she thought he was the gardener’.
Happy Easter, everybody.
I always mentally misquote St John as, ‘she thought he was the gardener’.
Happy Easter, everybody.
Good Friday
Apr. 19th, 2019 09:08 amThe other evening I watched Janet Baker - In Her Own Words on BBC 4 and cried my way through most of it. What an inspirational woman.
Here she is singing in the St Matthew Passion, which is an utterly wonderful work and very appropriate listening today.
The quality here isn't that great but it does give you an idea.
Here she is singing in the St Matthew Passion, which is an utterly wonderful work and very appropriate listening today.
The quality here isn't that great but it does give you an idea.
Easter Sunday
Apr. 4th, 2010 08:44 am
Easter card, found in an old book. Produced by the SPCK from a design by Joan Gale Thomas (1910 – 1988).
This and That
Mar. 31st, 2010 10:37 am
Has anyone else tried Matt’s Terrific Bread, which Cornflower has been baking? No-knead bread, left for twenty four hours and then baked in a Le Creuset casserole. It works! Another time I’d add more salt and sprinkle less flour on the top.
I’m really fed up with Amazon, and not just for the reasons Jane Badger gives here. It’s their insistence on having packets signed for which is bugging me. It’s not too bad when they use Royal Mail; you know roughly when the delivery will be and the postman knows you and your house. City Link is another matter. Yesterday, I put a large notice on the door announcing that I was IN yet later found a card thrown down outside the front door saying that I was out. What are you supposed to do; spend the whole day sitting watching for them? I complained to Amazon, who responded quickly but didn’t get it. I said I’d stop buying from them if they continued to use City Link. None of these problems with The Book Depository, which I think will be getting my custom in future.
ETA The package was redelivered today and out of the blue Amazon emailed to say they wil refund me £10.00 because of my poor experience. No more than I deserve for the inconvenience :-)
Easter eggs
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Hey nonny-nonea
Apr. 14th, 2006 05:39 pm
Nonea lutea, that is. I fell for this little charmer years ago, when I had a passion for weedy looking plants, and it's been with me on and off ever since. Mostly off, as although it is a biennial it's not very reliable and you might not see it for five years. This specimen I found seeded into the gravel in the cold frame and transplanted. It has spiky, blistered-looking leaves, which I find highly irritant. It is related to the pulmonarias, which grow like weeds here, as do common primroses. We have thousands of them but I have trouble keeping the doubles and other prized varieties. Worth growing when they look like this: 
It was quite mild this afternoon, though inclined to rain at any minute, and I should have done some work in the garden but I was too tired. So instead I picked some flowers for Easter decorations. I filled a small ceramic log with moss, primroses and violets: very pretty but the photo was rubbish.
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huskyteer helped me decorate this Easter tree: 
Er, it looks better in real life.
