the view from here is uncertain but worth fighting for
So here I sit, on a golden afternoon on this final day of September. A month gift-wrapped in anticipation which sadly couldn’t deliver on its promises: thwarted by circumstance and the curve balls life throws us sometimes. Continue reading “The View from Here: Clinging to the carousel”
Everywhere there are signs of productivity, passion, history and love
Yesterday Bernie & I visited the Lost Gardens of Heligan. I have wanted to go there for years – since well before the notion of moving here came into being. I’ve come close once or twice and it’s never quite happened. Finally, we’ve managed it – on a balmy afternoon in mid-September when everything colluded to give me an experience to treasure. Continue reading “The Lost Gardens of Heligan: an afternoon of history, tranquility and delight”
Serialised 1869
Published in book form 1870
(Reviewed as part of the Classic Club challenge)
Continue reading “An Old-Fashioned Girl by Louisa May Alcott”
I told myself that I would not get embroiled in the many enticing challenges that I see everywhere in the book-blogging world. Just the initial one, I told myself, just the Classics Club. Plus the few personal ones that I’d set for myself anyway. Continue reading “Books, lists and challenges – 3 of my favourite things”
The view from here is wide open
It is the first day of September and I have climbed the stairs to a perfect, golden, early-autumn morning. The cows are back; they’ve returned overnight and are strung lazily across the valley: sturdy calves quieter now: smaller forms of their placid mothers. Their burnished hides glisten as the sun warms them; their shadows long across the pasture. Continue reading “The View from Here: new day, new month, new year”
A Corner of Cornwall 