Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Books, Science & Nature
I am currently reading What on Earth Happened?… In Brief (the planet life and people from the big bang to the present day). It is full of interesting facts and today I learned some interesting facts about bees, I had no idea there were so many different species of bee.
Bees descended from wasps and emerged [...]
15 Comments CherryPie on Jul 14th 2009
I have now finished reading the Morville Hours which I quoted from in my post yesterday. So what did I think of it?
Synopsys (from book cover):
Katherine Swift takes the reader on a journey through time, back to the forces which shaped the garden, linking the history of those who lived in the same Shropshire house [...]
13 Comments CherryPie on Jul 8th 2009
Earlier today I came across this passage in the The Morville Hours. It gave me pause for thought, so I thought I would share it with you.
The wearing of scarlet poppies and the laying of poppy wreaths on Remembrance Day dates from 1921, though the sheets of poppies which covered the battlefields of France [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jul 7th 2009
Whilst glancing through my National Trust magazine I spotted a review for a book called Gardens of Wales written by Helena Attlee with photographs by Alex Ramsay. I looks like a must for my bookshelf which will probably lead to a few more gardens being added to my ‘To Visit’ list. It covers all [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on May 19th 2009
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Synopsis from book cover: “One of the most vivid and realised characters of recent fiction, Willie Dunne is the innocent hero of Sebastian Barry’s highly acclaimed novel. Leaving Dublin to fight for the Allied cause as a member of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, he finds himself caught between the war playing out on foreign fields [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on May 16th 2009
