At this time of year, much work is being done in our garden by the Head Gardener, otherwise known as the DH, so it’s wise to wash the soap before trying to wash your hands.
We visit many gardens and the picture is of a Cambridge college one taken early in the year. Fortunately, our house isn’t surrounded by the amount of space on show or my husband might need assistance with his efforts. While I like the flowers and his blackcurrants are truly wonderful, gardening is not my favourite pastime. It’s good to have separate but complementary interests.
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Mariah Fox finds herself caught up in Tobias’s argument about teaching when he asks her whether only she can do the teaching. Is it not the case, he wants her to consider, that a countess would be in a powerful position to enable teaching?
So, while I won’t be getting mud under my fingernails, I do have a few boxes of spring bulbs I’m keen to see planted up. Wonder where the gardener is…
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