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Staying in with my laptop
I bought my first laptop last year as a luxurious add-on to the desktop computer that sits in the office room where I spend most of my writing days here at home in Lewes, UK. I suppose I should confess…
In 2020 I went to Pompeii and then to Troy
Troy myth and reality. At the beginning of 2020, I spent a week in Naples and visited the fateful ruins at Pompeii where you have to think about the disaster that befell the folks there in in the year 79…
Remembering Peter Fonda – the easy rider
I was sad to hear of Peter Fonda’s death, not just because he starred in Easy Rider, one of my favourite films, or just because he was unusual for a Hollywood star (in those days) to take an active role…
Lewes is looking good as October comes to a close.
I went on my regular walk round town yesterday and even though I’m always taking photographs here in Lewes, UK, I couldn’t resist capturing the late October light as the leaves begin to turn. I didn’t have my…
Looking back at Sissinghurst in May 2014 – ending my survey of Sissinghurst Castle Gardens.
To finish the series on a recent trip to Sissinghurst Castle Gardens that I’ve been running all week, I thought I’d look back at some photographs I took in May 2014 on my first visit to this inspiring horticultural paradise,…
Today let’s enjoy some of Sissinghurst’s star plants
In today’s blog about my trip to Sissinghurst Castle Gardens, I thought I’d include some of the photographs that I took of individual plants just because I liked them. Sissinghurst is all about the group plantings and experiments with…
Looking at all the other colours of Sissinghurst after the glories of The White Garden.
Yesterday I wrote about Sissinghurst’s famous White Garden so, today, I thought you’d like to see the world beyond white – or, rather white, grey and green as its creator, Vita Sackville-West insisted. I’m devoting my regular blogs to Sissinghurst…
Exploring the White Garden at Sissinghurst and finding green and grey.
I’m writing about gardens this week excited that our delayed English June has finally got into gear in my own garden in Lewes, UK, but mostly because I’ve been inspired by a visit to the great gardens at Sissinghurst,…
Taking a look at what Vita Sackville-West created at Sissinghurst Castle Gardens.
I spent most of last Sunday visiting the horticultural mecca that is Sissinghurst Castle in Kent. It was created by the novelist, poet and garden designer Vita Sackville-West (1892 – 1962) and her writer-diplomat husband Harold Nicolson (1886 – 1968).…