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Roz

Newbury, Berkshire

Anglo-Welsh countrywoman with a heart and a brain - both fully functional!

Interests: Old houses, Old books, Good food, Gardening, M.A. in Death Studies, Counsellor specialising in Bereavement and loss, facilitator of therapeutic writing courses.

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A Fleeting Glimpse of Springtime

Helleborus 'Hillier Hybrids' Oh, how we are all longing for springtime here in the Northern hemisphere - my little corner of it in the UK, anyway. I heard a farmer on TV the other day describe the last year as... Continue reading

Posted Mar 7, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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At last the Day Comes…

The first shafts of springtime sunlight, sharp and clear …when, after all the dark mornings, the snow, the wind and the rain - the endless rain - you go out to feed the birds, turn your face to the long-unseen... Continue reading

Posted Feb 16, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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Simple Pleasures on a Winter's Afternoon

No matter how hard I try to imagine that I see Springtime unfurling around every corner, it has to be admitted that most days are still pretty wintery here - especially at the moment, with only just above freezing temperatures,... Continue reading

Posted Feb 6, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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The Dream Scheme

As well as living in Autumn Cottage, I've run a number of therapeutic writing workshops here over the last few years. For a variety of reasons, 2012 was quiet in that respect, but I am, at present, creating a schedule... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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The Bread Queue

Fairly heavy snow here - just outside Newbury - so the morning bird feeding session will be repeated on at least a couple of occasions today. I feed the birds all round the year; in the summer, they come down... Continue reading

Posted Jan 18, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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Oh my, I do Love Stanley!

My untidy kitchen would not feature in the 'Home' pages of an interiors magazine, but when there is a hard frost outside, one installation in the kitchen with which I am totally in love is the Stanley cooker. Now Stan... Continue reading

Posted Jan 16, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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What very pretty packages you have made, Britt-Arnhild - I'm deligted that you were inspired to have such a lovely Artist Date with yourself yesterday!

Commented Jan 14, 2013 on Artist Dates at Britt-Arnhild's House in the Woods

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Turn Out Drawers, Turn Up Stories

Putting away the last of the Christmas decorations and cleaning up rooms where Christmas was mostly spent, I found myself doing today what usually happens at this time of the year. I ended up making more work for myself by... Continue reading

Posted Jan 9, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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Quick and Dirty in the Herb Garden

A somewhat dishevelled and rather empty veg/herb garden Temperatures here more akin to early April than to the first week in January, when, for the last few years we have floundered under a layer of ice and snow rather than... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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Happy Hour in Hungerford

...and not a drop of alcohol in sight! I've been 'running away' to the Antiques Arcade in Hungerford for well over twenty five years now. It's about twenty minutes drive from Autumn Cottage, and I always travel along the back... Continue reading

Posted Jan 5, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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For the full story of our aventure in Venice, this blog is best read from the bottom (earliest) entries upwards. Continue reading

Posted Jan 5, 2013 at Ladies Of A Certain Age

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Jan 3, 2013

Rescuing Poorly Plants in Penwood!

Continuing to carry out my Services to Poorly Plants (or those that have flowered, failed, died back or whatever) by rescuing several Kalanchoe from the local Homebase store, where they were being sold off for 10% of their original price.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 3, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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Fran - I have loved to see your cards and associated writing over the last few years. One of my commitments to myself for 2013 is to engage with Soul Collage myself. Thanks for your continuing to post your own work - it is most encouraging.

Commented Jan 2, 2013 on Entering 2013 With SoulCollage® Thoughts For Us All at REDONDOWRITER'S SACRED ORDINARY

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In with the New!

So here we are…at home in Autumn Cottage on the first day of a New Year, and however few of them finally come to fruition, I join the rest of the world, it seems, in affirming goals (never 'resolutions') towards... Continue reading

Posted Jan 1, 2013 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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'Twas Christmas Week in the Garden...

...and for all the squelching around on grass and ground, sodden and unable to absorb any more of the endless (it seems) rain that we have been having throughout the year, still the temperatures are above average (in double figures for the last three weeks or so), greenery abounds and... Continue reading

Posted Dec 28, 2012 at Autumn Cottage Garden Safaris

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There's a considerable line-up of 'the usual suspects' waiting for food to go out onto and around the bird table each day now. (Cat problem solved by a combination of bribery and string :-) ). Blue-tits, Robins, Blackbirds are all regular and ever-less-shy visitors, emboldened as the weather gets colder... Continue reading

Posted Dec 6, 2012 at Autumn Cottage Garden Safaris

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Winter Warmers On!

Well into winter temperatures here, we have already had a few nasty frosts. No damage appears to have been done to the olive trees yet - but with temperatures forecast to fall to -7C overnight (after a rather lovely, very cold, but clear and sunny day), I decided to not... Continue reading

Posted Dec 5, 2012 at Autumn Cottage Garden Safaris

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This card just blows me away, Fran.

Commented Nov 21, 2012 on SoulCollage® Card - Fran's Missing Man at REDONDOWRITER'S SACRED ORDINARY

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Brilliance in the Gathering Gloom

By 3 pm the light is already falling fast here at Autumn Cottage - but while leaves remain on the trees and shrubs, there is still a beautiful natural illumination in the garden. They say that anyone can make a garden in the summer, but that the more skilled gardeners... Continue reading

Posted Nov 15, 2012 at Autumn Cottage Garden Safaris

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Footfall around Farnham

Posts from Autumn Cottage have been mostly from Autumn Cottage Garden in recent months. Well, even I can't pretend that the last rose of summer lives forever (though I was somewhat astonished to see a rose bush still covered in... Continue reading

Posted Nov 7, 2012 at Autumn Cottage Diarist

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Is this how it feels To be a fish gazing up from a pool or a vole in the undergrowth? Continue reading

Posted Nov 5, 2012 at One Mindful Moment

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(Tree of Crows - Caspar David Friedrich, 1822, Musee du Louvre, Paris) From bare branches, against the low November sun, three crows fly up. Below them, across ploughed earth - the guns. (Seen during, written after driving back from Hungerford this afternoon, For Mindful Writing Day - Nov 1 2012,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 1, 2012 at One Mindful Moment

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Two hares candle-gaze through the dark. Against the window glass, rain trickles down, wind blows. Continue reading

Posted Oct 31, 2012 at One Mindful Moment

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A carpet of dying fragments Each day replaced, collected, Heaped, transformed. In a year...green and yellow To rich brown gold Continue reading

Posted Oct 29, 2012 at One Mindful Moment

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