The Scribble

  • Roald Dahl

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    There are only two people I still regularly write letters to (and receive them in return): my Grandad in Bruton, and my friend Pauline in Berlin. Once upon a time, before two small children and a small business there were more, and I have a giant green steamer...
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  • Buttercup

    buttercup instaCommon they may be, but no less beautiful for it, Meadow Buttercup (Ranunculus Acris) is the meadows' supermodel, tossing their pretty blonde heads in the breeze atop willowy stems. According to that modern font of knowledge that is <...
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  • Common Vetch

    vetch blogNot unlike my own rampaging toddler, Common Vetch marauds through the meadow clambering over this and that, a little bit of a thug but also - I think! - quite beautiful. It's half-term this week and I am feeling a little in limbo, but trying hard to heed these words...
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