Mrs Beltane … was an elegant blue-haired, stiffly-moving woman of about sixty, who imagined herself to have seen better days.
I do like Barbara Pym.
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No fond return of love
Ring cycle
There are three different organisations that send me their publication, called ‘The Ring’, from time to time. Yes, three different publications.
Each of them no doubt had a witty and original reason for coming up with the name, but I also can’t help feeling that some classic text on “how to run a successful development office” must emphasise the need for names that make your members feel part of an elite circle, an inner ring…
Anyway, since these three are amongst the very few things that come through my door and don’t go straight to the recycling, I must just get used to the fact that all my reading matter has this somewhat toroidal flavour.
But perhaps I need one ring to rule them all…
Green
Wandlebury, this morning.
Street furniture
So Fred and me, we ‘ad a cup o’ tea…
The summer of our dis-content?
Is this a bug, or a marketing cliff-hanger from Apple, do you think?
Shut it
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Decline and Fall
We visited the Roman fort at Hardknott Pass yesterday: a favourite spot of mine.
However, this chap looked at me as if to say, “Romans? Ha! They came and went, but the sheep live on!”
Sign of the times
A warning on a steep and narrow road heading out of Grasmere.
Feeling blue?
You need some of these bluebells, above Aysgarth Falls
Where the roads aren’t made for cars
In the countryside around Newsells Park Stud, everything is tailored to equine comfort and happiness.
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