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The Oriental Garden, Haddington
This gem of a wee garden is close to the care home where I now live and is maintained by local volunteers. It’s on either side of the old mill stream. The picture was taken last August. Now it’s full of spring flowers: daffodils, narcissi, crocuses, polyanthus and forsythia. The cherry tree is in bud … Continue reading
Book Talk
m.facebook.com/photo.php Some of the audience at my book talk in Haddington Library. It was well attended with a lot of interesting questions. Continue reading
Good Vibrations Book Talk
Flowers in the fields
On Thursday July 1 the BBC’s radio 4 programme, Inside Science, had a piece on it which caught my attention. It was about some research that the University of Florida were doing on growing water melons. They managed to decrease their use of insecticides by sowing strips of clover and other wild flowers between the … Continue reading
The Good Food Revolution 4) Rebecca Hosking and regenerative farming
Rebecca runs a Devonshire farm with her dad. See her website for more details and lovely pictures https://www.rebeccahosking.co.uk/wolf-tree-farm/ HPG, or holistic planned grazing, began in South Africa by farmer Ian Mitchell Innes. He believes that the more you align and work with nature, the less you have to work and the less money you have … Continue reading
My Christmas Books
Christmas is coming and in these troubled times of travel restrictions you might be tempted to give a gift to a loved one where they can travel to far flung places in their minds. My most recent book, Stranger than Fiction, True Stories from around the World , does just that. It’ll take you on … Continue reading
My new housemate
I’m going to try posting the picture of Alex again (see previous blog) as WordPress kindly stuck an ad over it. Yuk. Continue reading
The Belly Dancer Kindle deal
Spice up your summer with a trip to Istanbul! The Belly Dancer is just £0.99 until Saturday, June 9. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Belly-Dancer-Margaret-Halliday-ebook/dp/B07GY1MJVH/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1559730568&sr=1-1 Continue reading
The Lover’s Portrait review
The Lover’s Portrait by Jennifer S. Alderson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a well-written and researched novel about what happened to famous works of art in Nazi-occupied Holland in World War 2. It starts slowly to set the scene but picks up pace and I was gripped by it about half-way through. … Continue reading
A Traveller's Tales 