Libby

Thank you! @barny and @seagreen

I love the perse word, Sandra. Thanks for introducing me to it. I’d like to know more terms for colours but, as you suggest, they can be ambiguous which probably doesn’t encourage common use. Bice – learned from a novel I read a while ago – is brownish grey or dark grey, but can also refer to green or blue shades. So it’s all a bit of a challenge…[Read more]

Thank you @sandradavies . I very much enjoyed your story too. A pleasure to read.

Thank you @athelstone. I enjoyed writing to the theme. The other entries were so good I’m very chuffed to have won.
I’ll go away and think of a theme for July.

The best I’ve managed is chives.
One thing about the weather this year: the patches of meadow pea on the lane’s verges are larger than usual. Rich golden yellow flowers liked by bees.

Happy birthday for this month, Ath! I’m not far behind you. It all feels quite unbelievable.

With luck and a fair wind I’ll post something.

I really enjoyed both these entries. Congratulations @athelstone and @sandradavies.

Brilliant, Squidge! I really enjoyed listening to your story.

Thanks, Richard. Have you been to Farley Chamberlayne? It’s worth a trip for anyone in the area. I can’t remember what the house looks like, and the internet isn’t obliging, but FC is a deserted medieval village with a pretty church. It feels remote and wild despite close proximity to Winchester.

No worries, Ath. I had forgotten all about that post.

Thank you for the blog, Richard.
A school friend was a fan of Fairport and Denny. I enjoyed listening but not enough to keep up an interest after school. Was the house in Hampshire Headley ?Grange. Led Zep recorded there. I still listen to them occasionally but after I left school I switched to classical and have stayed there ever since.

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Ooh, another message I wrote some time ago 🙂

Yeuch … Still, fair play to her for levitating on one wrist.