tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53067855206181241682024-03-05T02:56:15.633-08:00Qaroline's Qonundrumsqarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-29064247436652129782019-03-24T11:48:00.001-07:002019-03-24T11:48:49.584-07:00Roadtrip: New Forest and Furzey Gardens AGAIN<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The weather was so gloriously sunny today that I just wasn't able to stay home. Because it was Sunday and I wanted to be back home early I drove to the New Forest again, swinging by Furzey Gardens on my way back. I have posted an awful lot of pix from Furzey but I can't remember ever visiting so early in the year. Magnolias and camellias were at their absolute best and a few cherry blossoms and early blooming azaleas and rhododendrons were out as well.<br />
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Much love,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile, in Furzey Gardens, the camellias are in full swing</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-42892092533191640362018-12-06T10:33:00.000-08:002018-12-06T10:33:38.554-08:00The year in reverse, vol. IV: Normandy<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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In the first week of September 2018, a friend and I embarked on a proper adventure. My friend drove all the way from Germany to Normandy, I left my car in Portsmouth and went across to France on the ferry. We had found a very reasonably priced Airbnb in Reville, roughly 30 minutes from the ferry port in Cherbourg, a cottage with a wild garden in walking distance to the coast.<br />
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I hadn't been in France for c. 10 years, went a bit over the top on our first shopping trip to the large supermarket in Quettehou and ended up bringing lots of goodies back to the UK, including salted caramel biscuits, sweet chestnut and salted caramel spreads, violet and almond sirops, lime blossom tea and madeleines (very <i>A la recherche du temps perdu</i>), and an amazing apple compote.<br />
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We stayed pretty much in the area, exploring nearby places like Saint Vaast-la-Hougue where we splashed out on a meal of fresh oysters, prawns and moules frites, or Barfleur and its rocky beaches. We had a lot of luck with the weather and even went swimming at our 'house beach'.<br />
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I am slowly making my way back to summer - more to come!<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Fortifications in Saint Vaast-la-Hougue, we walked from the town all the way, almost to the tower (which turned out to be behind a fence)</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-17574830677850797452018-11-29T10:32:00.000-08:002018-11-29T10:32:32.793-08:00The year in reverse, vol. III: Snelsmore Common<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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A quick mid-week post to use up those old photos. At the moment, as this island is covered in fog, drizzle and heavy rain and the sun doesn't seem to come up at all any more I am astonished at the light in those pictures. I went for a Sunday stroll on nearby Snelsmore Common on 21 October 2018. This time I didn't see the ponies though I heard them from afar. I hadn't been to the Common for quite a while (the last time must have been in 2013, see the post <a href="http://qarolinesqonundrums.blogspot.com/2013/08/benchmarks-snelsmore-common.html" target="_blank">here</a>) and it seemed so much more grown over than before. My favourite bench seems to be gone.<br />
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-33313860918455106682018-11-25T09:46:00.000-08:002018-11-25T09:46:05.769-08:00The year in reverse, vol. II: Furzey Gardens<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I visited Furzey Gardens again on 27 October 2018, to show it to one of my friends. Looking at the photos today it amazes me how colourful the leaves were now that most of them have fallen in late November. Because I have been to this garden so often didn't post these pictures before, as I am not very keen on repeating myself - but this time we noticed a beautiful autumn-flowering camellia, and the vibrant pink blooms seemed surprisingly summery.</div>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-40327578576191523652018-11-18T09:58:00.002-08:002018-11-18T09:58:34.009-08:00Roadtrip: Arundel, Worthing and Petworth<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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I am back from my short November roadtrip and managed to squeeze quite a lot into two days. While passing Arundel on my way back from Rye last year I had thought that the city looked very interesting, with the prominent castle and cathedral and had planned to go back there and explore.<br />
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I arrived early in the morning and went up to Arundel Park, then had some coffee in the town centre and waited for everything to open. The park is very hilly and later in the day I decided to take a shortcut over one of the steep meadows to get back on the same level as the cathedral. Managed to cut my hand on some barbed wire and arrived back in town out of breath, decidedly sweaty and bleeding a fair bit ... after visiting the cathedral and St Nicholas (pix below) I drove on to Worthing, checked into my hotel and walked around some more, including a visit to the Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, which has some very interesting exhibitions on at the moment. I loved <a href="https://worthingmuseum.co.uk/exhibition/leaf-sea-breeze/" target="_blank">'A Leaf on a Sea Breeze'</a>, the touring exhibition of artefacts from 'an idiosyncratic folk museum in the fictitious village of Leasingstede' (as it is described on the website), created by Jane Williams. Because I had just wandered into the exhibition space without really knowing what I would see, the quirky artwork, and the stories behind the artefacts, were a wonderful surprise.<br />
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Over night the weather changed from grey and drizzly to crisp and breezy and early in the morning I went out onto the empty pier of Worthing, had more coffee and afterwards plonked myself down in on one of the shelters on the promenade and just soaked up the sun, while listening to the waves.<br />
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I had sort of planned to go home via Chichester but after Arundel I was a bit 'churched out' and decided to go to <a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/petworth-house-and-park" target="_blank">Petworth</a> instead. Some of the house is closed for winter but the park is well worth a visit (including the pond that Turner made quite a few sketches of) and the house has a large collection of Turner's works, some of which were on display in the North Gallery.<br />
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Over the next days/weeks I am going to put up the other pictures in batches, all the way back to Spring!<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="https://www.therebutnotthere.org.uk/" target="_blank">'There But Not There'</a> installation in Arundel Cathedral. Each transparent silhouette represents a victim of the First World War. The cathedral was built during Victorian times.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seafront in Worthing - a crisp November day - the Dome in the middle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loved this little shelter</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Too much sun reflecting off the waves ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone feeding the gulls near the pier</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Ionic Temple in Petworth Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More yellow leaves in Petworth Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Died off, sun-bleached hydrangeas in Petworth Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In the North Gallery, Petworth</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Petworth - it was quite difficult getting a picture without any people in it, there was quite a lot of activity on this sunny Saturday</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hamish thinks I am being weird right now.</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-40432723441770031112018-11-10T09:24:00.001-08:002018-11-25T09:40:40.995-08:00The year in reverse, vol. I: Batsford Arboretum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Because I have been so bad at keeping track through the year, I am planning to upload a series of posts going back to Spring 2018. I can't really believe how fast this year has been running away from me and in the meantime the pile of pictures got bigger and bigger. The weird thing was that I didn't visit many new places this year and it felt a bit pointless to post pictures of my re-visits that look so similar to pictures in previous posts. But of course, there were a few highlights (more to come).<br />
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Now that the days are getting darker and darker its hard not to resent spending the working week indoors and I have tried to get outside as much as possible, especially on Saturdays, to make the most of the light. I will also take a few days off next week and go to the seaside again - I think I have done this for the last 4 years now and it has become a tradition. Last year I went to Rye, this time I am not venturing quite so far (again, more to come).<br />
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Today a friend and I visited <a href="http://www.batsarb.co.uk/" target="_blank">Batsford Arboretum</a> in Moreton-in-Marsh. The day started out with a blue sky. Some people might think of November as predominantly GREY but my November colours are the almost turquoisy blue of a cold morning and the bright yellow of the last leaves clinging to the trees against it. I was fortunate enough to find these colours today; however, at midday we were surprised by a proper autumn deluge and had to find shelter to avoid getting totally soaked. But soon after the sun broke through the clouds and sparkled on the bamboo leaves and Japanese maples.<br />
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qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-52127850372476533342018-04-22T06:18:00.000-07:002018-04-22T06:20:09.639-07:00Slow Spring<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The first leaves of the Japanese maples against the white bark of the bare birch tress, Furzey Gardens</td></tr>
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So far this has been a weird year.<br />
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We had 2 dumps of snow in March and Spring has been very slow to come - until this week and suddenly everything is out at once: the yellow, coconut suntan lotion-y smelling blooms of the gorse, the sloes and wild cherries while the first green pushes through everywhere.<br />
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Last weekend a friend and I went to Furzey where the most of the azaleas were nowhere to be seen (I am thinking about going again next Saturday to catch them ...) but there was still some colour about. This weekend it is very warm, I have been working in the garden, reading in the sun and taking a few selfies (haven't done this in a very long time) to document a new hairstyle.<br />
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Much love,<br />
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Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First heavy snow in March</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The second snow, end of March - the Euphorbia looking decidedly unhappy, camellias wrapped up a bit for protection</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grey skies in Furzey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">but some blossom at least</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bare branches in Furzey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">but camellias</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">and the first rhodo blossoms</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Weather change!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I would love to have enough space in my garden for a birch tree ... still in Furzey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hazels in bloom</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Heathers and cornus</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">all together now</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A one week old male donkey foal, born in the car park of Furzey Gardens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">already a poser</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My garden: cowslips doing really well this year</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A selection of double-flowered daffodils</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Generally I am not a fan of wallflowers but I need something big and orange to counterpoint the bright blue brunnera blossoms</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Only one of my camellias is doing well this year, the <i>Madame Vansittart</i> - I repotted the other ones this year, hopefully next year they will be as covered in flowers</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Daffodils and tulips and all the little seedlings in the greenhouse</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lungwort, wallflowers and the brunnera, some forget-me-nots intermingled</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">new side cut</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">First day I need my hat in the garden! (it's very old and falling to pieces but I haven't found a replacement yet)</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-62051789271530361442018-02-17T13:57:00.001-08:002018-02-17T13:57:46.833-08:00A new beginning<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Welford Park today</td></tr>
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Okay, I know. I am trying, but at some point there are so many photos that sifting through all of them becomes scary. So I am trying to start again.<br />
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Last year I missed out on the snowdrops at <a href="http://www.welfordpark.co.uk/" target="_blank">Welford Park</a> and it felt weird. It had been my yearly Early Spring ritual and the start of the garden visiting season and I was determined to manage to go this year.<br />
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It felt like the first sunny weekend in ages and I don't think I ever saw the grounds this packed!<br />
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Hope you're up for a new beginning.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<b>FROM SOLSTICE TO SOLSTICE</b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On 21 June 2017, looking up to the Uffington White Horse Hill - one of the hottest days I remember here</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Summer soltice sunset from the White Horse Hill</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sun sinking</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plant fair in Farnborough Rectory, NGS. Almost bought the grass for the spacey looking weeds</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Roses and delphiniums at Farnborough Rectory, NGS</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alliums in Mottisfont, National Trust</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orchard at Hidcote, National Trust</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wales, Breckon Beacons National Park</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lichen, Wales</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the way to the waterfall in Wales</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the waterfall trail. Unfortunately I can't remember the name of this one. Wrote it down somewhere ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glass house borders, RHS Wisley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting obsessed with the colours on this one ... Wisley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wisley. Love the grey Russian Sage</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chance encounter in Wisley</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Autumn colour in Furzey Gardens</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Furzey, last colours</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Furzey</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cherry trees at Batemans (National Trust) in November, blossoms and autumn leaves at once</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seaside near Rye, East Sussex</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Rye Harbour Nature Reserve, November</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-12592327039341477482017-06-11T02:06:00.000-07:002017-06-11T02:06:21.421-07:00NGS: Beggars Knoll<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am always trying to see a few open National Garden Scheme gardens each year but the <a href="https://www.ngs.org.uk/?bf-garden=19534" target="_blank">Chinese garden at Beggars Knoll</a> was my first for 2017. Almost next to the White Horse at Westbury and with breathtaking views over the surrounding hills, the garden is divided into many small rooms, each with a different theme and name. It was quite a windy day, the trees were 'wuthering' all around us and thinking back on it the trees in this garden probably made the strongest impression on me: mature beech trees, a massive black mulberry, gingkos, even a sezuan peppercorn tree ... but I also loved the stones and various special objects placed around the garden.<br />
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The garden is open by appointment only and a guided tour is included in the entrance fee.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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I have been on the road a fair bit this Spring. My parents came to visit end of May and we met up in East Sussex to visit Great Dixter, Charleston Farmhouse and Knole and we even managed to squeeze in another trip to Furzey Gardens which was in a very interesting transitional stage from the full-on riot of the azalea and rhododendron season to a more mellow summer colour. </div>
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During the trip to East Sussex I read Helen Attlee's <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Land-Where-Lemons-Grow-Citrus/dp/1581572905" target="_blank">The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit</a></i>, which had me slightly obsessed with owning a lemon tree, and of course the Orangery at Knole, filled with the strong scent of its flowering citrus plants, became even more fascinating.</div>
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<a href="http://www.charleston.org.uk/" target="_blank">Charleston Farmhouse</a>, once owned by Vanessa Bell and a centre of the Bloomsbury Group going-ons has been on my list for a long time and was absolutely crammed with the most wonderful stuff but we were not allowed to take photos of the interiors ...</div>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-43499668624988074922017-04-18T10:00:00.000-07:002017-04-18T10:00:04.043-07:00Roadtrip: Azalea Season<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had promised myself another trip to Furzey Gardens in the New Forest ever since the <a href="http://qarolinesqonundrums.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/roadtrip-milford-and-furzey-gardens.html" target="_blank">unexpected autumn colour spectacle</a> that I found there in November and even though I could feel the beginnings of a cold catching hold I took the chance of Easter Monday bank holiday to pay a second visit.<br />
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I arrived quite early and had the gardens to myself for a while, apart from a ginger cat called Lily who accompanied me for the first twenty minutes. This time I had expected a great display but was again overwhelmed by the boldness of colour combinations, especially in the azeleas that are now coming into their own, the fresh foliage of the acers and the scented summer azeleas. If I had to draw up a <i>High Fidelity</i> style top five favourite gardens, Furzey Gardens would currently hold number one.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-18775229842651276562017-04-14T09:31:00.001-07:002017-04-14T09:31:24.243-07:00Roadtrip: Cricklade Fritillaries<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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It was quite chilly today but we had planned to see the famous snake'shead fritillaries (<i>Fritillaria meleagris</i>) at <a href="http://www.crickladeinbloom.co.uk/about_north_meadow.html" target="_blank">North Meadow nature reserve</a> in Cricklade for some time. This old hay meadow is a Site of Special Scientific Interest and supports Britain's largest population of the rare fritillaries and it took us at least one hour to walk around the meadow. The fritillaries moved with the breeze like a field of little bells and a sparkly purple haze seems to hover over the grass and it is a shame that these impressions don't translate to photos. Afterwards we went for lunch to the Fritillary Tea Room, organised by the <a href="http://www.crickladeinbloom.co.uk/index.html" target="_blank">Cricklade Bloomers</a> where a wide range of plants was on sale, so I bought a few for the shady part of my garden, a variegated solomon's seal and a geranium, as these seem to do quite well in my garden.<br />
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If you're in the area, North Meadow is really worth the drive and the second and third week of April is the best time to see the fritillaries!<br />
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Much love,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The German name for these flowers is 'Schachbrettblume' (chessboard flower) and here you can see why.</td></tr>
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I am slowly coming out of hibernation but as we have been having uncommonly glorious weather over the last four days I really need to clear the decks for future photographs - so here is the collection for the first 3 months of 2017!<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bristol Cathedral - a few days before Christmas, not yet 2017 ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Queen is in residence - Windsor, end of February</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Walk on Fyfield Downs, these are the Sarsen stones they built Stonehenge out of</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">RHS Garden Wisley, middle of March</td></tr>
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Happy winter soltice, everyone!<br />
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I started off for Avebury a bit late this morning and had quite a tricky drive as the rain was coming down hard and the A4 between Hungerford and Marlborough started to flood in Savernake Forest. Unfortunately the National Trust hadn't opened its car park this year but I managed to find a spot to park (with a great view towards Silbury Hill as it turned out) - and the rain had suddenly stopped!<br />
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I arrived in the stone circle feeling a bit rushed but as soon as I found my spot on the wall I started to calm down. There were quite a lot of people around and everyone looked towards the sun. Unlike last year when dark grey just became a lighter grey it was quite a dramatic spectacle.<br />
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Unfortunately my camera was quite unhappy with the low light levels and I fear that it might be on its last legs; lots of the pictures have weird stripes but I was able to find a few that document the sun rising after the longest night of the year.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<br />Ever since coming back from Scotland and the Lake District I haven't really been on the road. But I took last Friday off, determined to make my annual November journey to the seaside. I don't really know why I have settled on Milford-on-Sea as the place to be almost each time, probably because it is the closest and I know the route by heart.<br />
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The morning started off quite grey and bitterly cold but the sky cleared while I had breakfast in the cafe on the beach. It was very windy and the crashing of the waves incredibly loud, the spray washing over the promenade at times.<br />
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On each trip to Milford I try to visit at least one of the gardens in the New Forest and because I had passed the sign for <a href="http://www.minsteadtrust.org.uk/Pages/Category/Furzey-Gardens" target="_blank">Furzey Gardens</a> many times I spontaneously decided to make a stop on my way back. Furzey Gardens was a wonderful surprise, even this late in the year there was so much autumn colour that it was almost overwhelming. The garden works closely together with <a href="http://www.minsteadtrust.org.uk/Pages/Category/Furzey-Gardens" target="_blank">The Minestead Training Trust</a>, a charity that supports and trains people with learning disabilities and their Chelsea gold-medal winning garden of 2012 has been recreated in one of the garden areas. I can't wait to go back again in the spring!<br />
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I hope you are making the most of November by cuddling up on the sofa with a mug of tea, a book and maybe something furry and purring for company ...<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Furzey Gardens - I loved that there were labels on a lot of the trees and shrubs. The flame-red shrub is an <i>Enkianthus perulatus</i>.</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-2923707409043391762016-09-11T12:32:00.001-07:002016-09-11T12:32:37.434-07:00Lazy rainy days<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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There was so much rain yesterday - the perfect opportunity to finish most of my alpaca cardi-poncho project. I have been working on this since summer last year and now I am finally nearing completion.<br />
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Because it developed into a monstrously big piece of knitting I decided some time ago that I would skip the sleeves and just wear it as a poncho. The alpaca felts easily and I knew that I would never ever be able to unravel everything, otherwise I would have considered beginning again in order to get it right. I am now working on the neck and armhole finishing and then I will - finally - be able to move on to the next big(gish) crafting project.<br />
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When the rain eased off a bit around early afternoon I quickly took a few photos in the garden, of the whole glorious glossy mess it is at the moment, full of blooming tobacco plants, fennel, verbenas sunflowers, rust-speckled hollyhocks and Japanese anemones.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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I have been holding off on posting random stuff as this is the 100. post on this blog and I wanted to do something special for the jubilee of Qaroline's Qonundrums. What could be more appropriate for this festive occasion than to blog about the mother of all roadtrips?<br />
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For the last years my bucket list of places to see has included just 3 places:<br />
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a) Lake District<br />
b) Scotland<br />
c) Iceland<br />
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This summer I had the chance to cross 2 of them off the list - but of course now I need to go back someday, as there wasn't time enough to see anywhere near as much as I wanted to see. I had only one week off and the opportunity to join friends of mine who had rented a Airbnb in Pitlochry in the Scottish Highlands. Because I knew I had to drive there to save on money (train fares are atrociously high in the UK) and that I would pass the Lake District anyway, I crammed my camping stuff and clothes for all weather eventualities into the car and drove north.<br />
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I did not plan too much, I rather wanted to experience the different landscapes without coming to them with too many expectations - but the one thing I knew I wanted to do was to swim in a loch. I ended up swimming a lot - every day when I was in the Lake District - and in the end this trip has been mostly about water.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Falls of Dochart - near Killin. My first proper stop after driving through the night.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Falls of Dochart - Killin, near Loch Tay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pebble beach, Loch Tay, on my way to Pitlochry</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wild flowers on the shore of Loch Tay</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dull, near Aberfeldy. I just needed to photograph this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Loch Morlich, Cairngorms National Park. As always the mountains do not look nearly impressive enough on the photograph. When swimming in the loch (peaty, ice-cold water) they seemed to be really near.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The fish ladder in Pitlochry. A few weeks before I had listened to <i><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fish-Ladder-Journey-Upstream/dp/1408859262/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471693773&sr=8-1&keywords=the+fish+ladder" target="_blank">The Fish Ladder - a Journey Upstream</a></i> by Katharine Norbury on audiobook. Highly recommended.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The relentless Scottish sunshine (!) - looking sunburnt and a bit blissed out next to Loch Ness</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Blairmount in Pitlochry. Stunning Airbnb, for more info follow the <a href="http://www.blairmount.co.uk/" target="_blank">link</a>!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My campsite near Coniston Water wasn't that far from the Atlantic Coast. As I am always a sucker for the seaside, I drove to Haverigg near Millom after pitching the tent on the first evening</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Haverigg - towards the coast</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Coniston Water - where I went swimming on the first evening</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After swimming - celebrating the first night in my new tent with a pipe</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Estwaite Water, very near to Hill Top, Beatrix Potter's place. Saw some of her water colours of Estwaite in a tiny exhibition space at Estwaite Fishery</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lakeside on Windermere - went swimming in there on the second day but at a different access point.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dove Cottage, Grasmere, where Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy lived for 8 years. Am reading Dorothy Wordsworth's diaries at the moment (to be honest I originally came here because it features in <i>The Trip</i> with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon ...)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Houses around Dove Cottage, Grasmere</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View towards the Old Man of Coniston from the campsite, zoomed in to cut off the tents</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cream tea in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Mrs-Fs-Fine-Food-Emporium-762773977115328/" target="_blank">'Fine Food Emporium - Mrs F's</a>' in Keswick. Was feeling a bit sunstruck by this point and needed to get away from the maddening crowd.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last evening and last opportunity for a swim in Coniston Water. Sat in the shade beneath the big oaks on the shore line for a long time.</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-55148071763702161222016-07-18T10:50:00.000-07:002016-07-18T10:50:35.326-07:00Dyed in Space<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sample skeins of merino.</td></tr>
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I spent my whole Sunday learning how to space dye with acid dyes and my fingers still look like the hands of the Corpse Bride, the blue has coloured my nails and the skin around them. I took lots of little sample skeins, some of them white wool, some of them grey wool and some silk - and 4 massive skeins of fluffy white merino that I spun at least 6 years ago when I hadn't yet learned how to ply.<br />
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While kneeling on the lawn to take the photos of the skeins I noticed masses of black beetles on the geraniums - lots of mini-dramas going on there ...<br />
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Hope you had a great weekend too.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very deep and rich colours on the grey wool.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The colours came out so brighly on the silk that I overdyed the one in the middle and the one on the right.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Big skeins of fluffy merino - I am particularly impressed with the result on the far right skein, on which I dumped all left-over colours and painted them over with grey.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My lovely new geranium - two beetles trying to shove each other from the petals, one bystander.</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-71321820778126710152016-07-13T12:07:00.000-07:002016-07-13T12:07:39.748-07:00Field trip<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Field of poppies near Northleach.</td></tr>
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This weekend I went on the pilgrimage to Hidcote. As my own garden is in its change-over phase at the moment and mostly green, I was looking forward to seeing this famous garden - but of course their roses were still going strong!<br />
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The most amazing thing for me is how different a garden can be on every single visit. This Saturday morning was actually pretty cold, but the air was filled with the fragrance of the varieties of mock-orange and the first lilies in bloom.<br />
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On my way back I stopped to take photos of two fields - one flax, one with so many poppies in it that it felt like a punch of colour on this grey day. I actually parked the car twice to photograph it from different angles ...<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah I know. But I love this tree.</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-19216416777539200162016-06-26T12:06:00.000-07:002016-06-26T12:06:35.984-07:00Lonely Bouquet Day 2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had the massive luck to find a Lonely Bouquet in Newbury today. I was having breakfast at the teashop at the canal, watching the swans (a group of girls named some of them Daisy, Lily, Poppy and Derek). When I left for the car park, I saw the bouquet lying on a bench. I read the card attached and just had to adopt it.<br />
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Today is <a href="http://www.lonelybouquet.com/ilbd.php" target="_blank">Lonely Bouquet Day 2016</a>, an initiative dedicated to making people happy - with flowers. You 'abandon' a bouquet for a stranger to find and to make them smile. Just love the idea - I sort of heard about this before. I popped the sunflowers in a jug, on the photo they still look a bit droopy as they had spent an hour in the car. My adopted bouquet was was abandoned by Helen Vickers of <a href="http://www.willowandbloomsflowersnewbury.co.uk/" target="_blank">Willow & Blooms</a> in Newbury. Thank you so much, Helen!<br />
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While having my lunch I spotted a visitor to the garden, resting on a Clematis leaf. I need to find out which kind of dayflying moth this is - being a fan of moths I just had to grab my camera. It stayed for more than 1 hour in my garden.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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Sorry for being so silent of late - I have been on the road and saw plenty of gardens but haven't really had time to post. In the last month I visited Mottisfont, where the national collection of historic roses is housed, twice - once when my parents were on their annual visit (which was a bit too early) and today, so I thought I post the photos from these visits to show the massive change that can happen to a garden in three weeks. As an interlude I am also posting photos from Spinner's Garden, a privately owned woodland garden in the New Forest, where I visited last weekend on one of my trips to the seaside.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mottisfont today. Way more colour</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still fascinated with love-in-a-mist as a companion plant for roses and pinks</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-80846580668470240482016-05-23T11:11:00.000-07:002016-05-23T11:11:45.889-07:00NGS: Sandleford Place & TWIGS Community Gardens<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Striking colour combinations in the TWIGS Community Gardens</td></tr>
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Over the last weeks I visited 2 NGS gardens, Sandleford Place in Newbury and <a href="http://twigscommunitygardens.org.uk/" target="_blank">TWIGS Community Gardens</a> in Swindon.<br />
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Looking back through the photos I notice that I have focussed more on details than usual, especially on the glorious wisteria at Sandleford Place and the sculptures in the TWIGS (Therapeutic Work in Gardening in Swindon) garden. I loved both places and really enjoyed the mindblowing selection of plants for sale at TWIGS. For this post I have selected pictures which give a more general impression.<br />
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Just before the last bluebells vanished I managed to find a bluebell wood and to take a few photos in evening light.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandleford Place - loved the tree water feature.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Always had a soft spot for auricula primroses.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Wisteria Walk.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Enborne - the blooming ramsons (Allium ursinus) saturated the air with a lovely garlicky aroma.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Park of Life Garden - the lighter side.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The wildlife friendly garden. My artichoke is a mere baby compared to this.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More wildlife friendliness. In the background the willow fence of the Cottage Garden with round hobbit "windows"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All my bluebell photos look quite samey. Tried an evening light variation.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lengthening shadows.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My favourite.</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-81425477325102945172016-05-14T05:30:00.001-07:002016-05-14T05:30:26.546-07:00The Body Politic: No 4 - Eating in Public<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For those of you who want to know (I always want to know): pickled radishes and avocado, plus smoked mackarel and watercress and edamame salad. Yum. My favourite pair of chopsticks which I brought back from Tokyo.</td></tr>
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<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></b>
<b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I want this blog to be positive.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">It's
just that from time to time it will be necessary for me to go off on a
rant - because one of my many daily conundrums is living as a fat woman
in a fat-hating society. So this category, "The Body Politic", will
provide a space for these (angry) musings. If you can't handle a bit of
rage and disappointment - please stop reading </span><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">right now</span></i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></b><br />
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Of course it is not all sunshine and flowers. I know that this blog is mostly about the beautiful places I visit or new ideas for various craft projects, that I haven't worked on the Body Politic series for years now, but that I really should. Because now that summer is almost upon us and much of life is taking place outside, this also means that I am much more in contact with people I do not know and who do not know me but who react to my body.<br />
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The bench I often sit on to eat my lunch is next to a very busy road and I can sense it. I haven't really thought of eating in public as a political act but as a fat woman eating her lunch in a public place I must say that it <i>feels </i>like a (mostly silent) protest. The people I get the most horrified looks from are usually women. I doesn't matter if I am eating crisps or carrot sticks. I get stared at. Someone that fat should just <i>stop </i>eating altogether, right? Or at least do it behind closed doors, in the dark? In their eyes I am committing a shameful act in public, and I am doing it most brazenly, not hunched over my lunchbox but usually with a sandwich in one hand and a book in the other. And sometimes I even bring a few biscuits along for afters!<br />
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I have started to think of my having lunch in public as making a political statement which seems a bit sad to me. Food sustains us but I deeply believe that it should be enjoyed, that it helps absolutely nobody to demonise the act of eating in this way. Food is not sinful or evil. I have lived in the ever-deepening spiral of self denial, ravenous binge-eating and numbing guilt for so many years that I can well understand how food becomes connected with such emotions - but I don't want to live like this anymore. And so I must protest. Every day. In the sunshine, if I am lucky.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I haven't found a new photo of me actually eating and haven't posted a photo of me in a long time. This is from a recent Sunday morning, I have been up since 6 and looking very bleary-eyed. No make-up, multiple chins. Hair is quite long now.</td></tr>
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qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-42619149944052446992016-05-11T11:19:00.001-07:002016-05-11T11:19:23.159-07:00Growth spurt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It has rained so much during the last 24 hours that coming back from work the roads were still flooded in places. After the heat of the weekend the garden has rejoiced in the 'mugginess' and has changed a lot - the last patches of bare soil are covered, the geum, brunnera and woad (which I bought as a dyeing plant) have grown at least 10 centimetres and every spare bit is awash in forget-me-nots. The chives have started to bloom and the last tulips are finally out - exquisitely fringed.<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">All the bits and pieces. Stuff growing in the bike's basket is lollo rosso salad.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The ferns are unfurling! Row of camellias to the left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My 'lawn'. To quote a well-known comic book: "Nach 2000 Jahren ausgiebiger Pflege dürfte mein Rasen recht annehmbar sein ..."</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very much like the subtle colour changes.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chives and forget-me-nots</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pride and joy: <i>Euphorbia melliflora</i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brunnera (blue) and Japanese anemones - my two favourites. Some bellis (daisies) planted in a blue teacup in the background. Second water feature (chipped studio pottery bowl from the junk shop with submerged camellia blossom)</td></tr>
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<br />qarolinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13947486633179202235noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5306785520618124168.post-16550064165173523642016-05-05T11:06:00.000-07:002016-05-05T11:06:46.440-07:00National Trust: Stourhead<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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The weekend is almost up us again and I haven't even posted the last lot of pictures yet! On the Sunday of the bank holiday weekend I woke up really early (6-ish, Hamish bouncing up and down on the bed and demanding immediate attention/cuddles/biscuits) and the sky was bright blue. So I thought I better get on the road, pronto.<br />
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I have visited Stourhead three times - the first time in 1997, when I was completely struck by the self-contained world of the placid lake and the miniature temples, so much so that I chose the English landscape garden for one of my graduating subjects in art history. The famous grass-covered bridge features in so many period films that I had the feeling of having visited much more often and when Darcy proposed to Lizzie in Joe Wright's <i>Pride in Prejudice</i> I knew exactly where they were absurdly romantic in the rain.<br />
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This year I took a friend to see it, she was visiting in late February and we had to find a house and garden that was already open and where we did not have to rely on flowers to make the garden attractive. I made up my mind to visit much more often and on last Sunday I did - enjoy!<br />
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Much love,<br />
Qaroline<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magnolias.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Massive camellias!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ready for your close-up?</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red among pink.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Another stunning camellia - ok, I might have a problem ...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Different view-point.</td></tr>
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