We bought some unusual herbs in pots To grow and add flavour to our food. There was grapefruit mint, sweet cecily, Creeping savory, thyme, oh lots. They grew so strong outside our door. I nurtured them with love. I picked a few bits now and then, But now they are no more. The herbs that [...]
All posts for the month October, 2010
London life: those pesky rabbits.
Posted by Frances Platman on 27/10/2010
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On the road: Great Tews, Little Tews and Shipston on Stour.
It was a cold grey miserable day but Lara picked us up from Riverside campsite for another foray into the beautiful countryside. We “oohed” and “aahed” as we drove around the “chocolate box lid” villages, even though the skies were threatening. We stopped at Great Tews, which is just entrancing and had lunch in the [...]
Posted by Frances Platman on 14/10/2010
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On the road: a walk around Stratford upon Avon.
We took the 10am taxi-boat from the Riverside campsite along the Avon to Stratford upon Avon city centre. It is a twenty minute leisurely cruise with a very friendly informative skipper. As we had arrived ahead of time, the skipper took us further up the river as far as the weir, showing us the famous [...]
Posted by Frances Platman on 13/10/2010
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On the road: herbs, road runner pheasants, and Stow on the Wold.
Lara collected us from the Riverside Caravan site near Stratford upon Avon and took us to the cottage where she is staying at Clifford Chambers just a few miles down the road. She is there until the end of October having won this bursary for women writers for time to write. It was a very [...]
Posted by Frances Platman on 12/10/2010
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U.K. Campsites: close to Stratford upon Avon.
Our daughter Lara had won a bursary for women writers, to spend two months in a cute little cottage at Clifford Chambers, a small village just outside Stratford upon Avon, in the heart of England, and we decided to pay her a visit. As the cottage was a one up, one down, we knew we [...]
Posted by Frances Platman on 11/10/2010
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