It has taken much sadness to have me live where I live now, in my parents old home, high on a hill on the rolling Sussex downs. They bought the house when it was literally, a farm. Now, most of the fields have been built on and the house itself, although it retains a large garden, backs onto a wooded area that is part ...The spring announces the transition to summer quite markedly here. Somehow, with no warning, one just knows that it is summer. I unpacked one of the sun loungers from its long winter hibernation and stretched out on it reading and dozing, and breathing in the scent of the garden. I don't know when I first heard them, b...
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