HeyJaredJune's Writing
Life, books and reading, nature, knitting, what's happening in the garden, a bit of memoir, general chat. Wide-ranging ruminations. I usually post at the weekend.
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Early autumn, tense spinsters, and all the mayhem of Third Republic Paris (opens the original)
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Hi, everyone! Another weekend, another week of gorgeous not autumnal weather. It’s been balmy here with little breeze and temperatures around 21 degrees. Perfect. Normally I would be thinking about putting the summer clothes away as October looms, but I just know there’s life in the light trousers and t-shirts still. I might just get some knitting going as a nod to the dark half of the year, but even that seems a bit too soon. I love it when the summer draws itself out and laps at autumn’s feet.
Bill and Ben, Barsetshire, and Bookish (opens the original)
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Hello everyone. I hope you are well and enjoying the weekend. This week’s post will be quite short on account of my having had a fairly dull week of health-related appointments and a teeny-tiny frustration at the decorator who didn’t arrive and having to spend an age finding another one. Don’t you just hate it when that happens? I’ve got carpets and curtains on order and now everything will have to be pushed back. Boo. A’s old iPad died and we had to get a new one—the price of a good chair—of co
Garden, graves and gothic tales (opens the original)
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The weekend is upon us again. Warm-ish, cloudy-ish and humid-ish, it is dry, at least for now. The rain has worked wonders in the garden and a number of plants that I thought were lost have put on new foliage - salvia, poppies (which were burned brown and crispy) and geum. Even the rose I thought had had it is putting out fresh leaves. The magic of a little rain. It’s a beautiful thing. All that life in hiding, just waiting to re-emerge. So reassuring and rewarding.Subscribe nowWe also have a cl
Miss Moneypenny, Ms Steinem, and Mr Mercury plus book chat. (opens the original)
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Hello everyone and a very happy weekend to you all. I’ve had a quiet week and so have been able to do much reading. Whoop! The weather has been pretty normal—if that word can be used about our weather now—a little cooler, showery, and a couple of days of blustery wind. One day I wore a raincoat! It was like wearing new clothes, it’s so long since I took it out of the cupboard. I found 5p in the pocket and felt lucky. I also had a birthday and felt luckier still to be alive and well after 71 year
Red Arrows and Road Arrows, weeds and seeds, and other nonsense... (opens the original)
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This post may show up as for paid subscribers only. It’s not, it’s for everyone, as usual, but Substack has been having a funny five-minutes and keeps telling me that it’s for paid subs only. Do let me know if it’s still doing this.Hello, folks! Sunshine and showers this week, the showers being particularly welcome, especially when they bring beautiful skyscapes like this one. I’m rather pleased with how that pic came out. Although it does look a little as though Deatheaters might appear at any
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