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  • ‘Venice has always been a translucent city, a place of ravishing sunsets and iridescent mornings.’ - Jan Morris (from Venice) 💫 ❤️ Thank you for all your kind comments on my last post. I’m a bit behind with replies as I’m recovering from bronchitis and have been trying to rest when I can — but I very much appreciate your good wishes. Have a lovely weekend, folks. ❤️
  • It’s been an unexpectedly tough week, with a lot of days spent ill in bed, but the fog is finally clearing. ☁️
  • I never tire of the rooftop view from my tiny loftroom study. I’m obsessed with its subtle daily alterations: the blanket of fog that blurs the edges of everything; the flock of black birds that gather in the tree; smoking chimneys; frost that makes the roofs sparkle; rosy sunrises, an occasional blanket of snow. This little window is like an ever-changing picture in its plain wooden frame. 🖼
  • On a wet and windy March Sunday, the magnolia tree in the garden was quietly making its way into bloom a few weeks early. I felt a little unsettled by its appearance so soon, but I picked some of its silky buds for my lovely friend @emylouedwards. For me, spring has always begun with this tree of pink petals. 🌸💞 #WHPWeekend
  • ‘Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.’ - Jane Smiley 📚 I’ve announced the winner of the #littlestoriescompetition over on my Stories. ⬆️✨ If you too would like to join me for five weeks of storytelling with words and pictures, this is your last chance. Enrollment for the Little Stories of My Life E-course closes at midnight tomorrow . Click on the link in my profile for details. ❤️
  • ‘Every hour of the day is a miracle of light.’ - Peggy Guggenheim (on Venice) I’ve written about the melancholy beauty of Venice over on my blog (link in profile.) ✨ PS: If you look closely, can you spot the 🦁? 👀
  • ‘A single green sprouting thing would restore me...’ - Jane Kenyon (from February: Thinking of Flowers) 🌱
  • I walked up these steps as a toddler clutching a bucket and spade, and many years later, with a toddler of my own. I walked up them one cold December morning the day after my Grandad’s funeral, when we gathered, goosebumps and giggles, for a farewell family sea swim. This is the place where the land meets the sky, and, when I reach the top, where the sky meets the sea. This is where I come to find peace. 🌊 #whpsplitscreen

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