Entries from 2015

24 March 15

On a stone, set in a path in our garden is written: “Friendship outstays the hurrying flight of years and aye abides through laughter and through tears” At long last...
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1 July 15

Dearest Mistress and Charlie have been very busy planting out Salvia, to flower through the late summer days. Meanwhile, I have been feeling the heat and taking my ease i...
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21 July 15

There is no place on earth more lovely than an English garden on a summer’s day. Dearest Mistress says there is still much to look forward to, adding that the very best...
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27 August 15

This past week the boys have continued cutting the yew hedges which were planted by Reginald Cooper in the 1920s, long before Mistress and I were born! Mistress, Charl...
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10 September 15

I tell my Dearest Mistress that in China we have an aphorism which says: “There are things which never could be imagined, but there is nothing which may not happen.” ...
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