Tag Archives: Ella Pontefract

July brings cooling showers

Posted on July 2, 2022 by Lizzie Ross

My experience has always been that showers in July provide no cooling at all, for they only add to the humidity, but that could be the difference between east coast USA in the last 40 years, and Sara Coleridge’s England … Continue reading →

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April brings the primrose

Posted on April 2, 2022 by Lizzie Ross

Spring at last has arrived in the pages of the Trés Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, where the wealthy can celebrate a betrothal outside their enclosed garden. Pollarded trees shoot up new branches, blossoms burst open in the orchard, … Continue reading →

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Testing the water

Posted on January 5, 2022 by Lizzie Ross

Yes, it’s been a while. But I think I’ve licked my case of the “don’t-wants” (as in “I don’t want to …”), and I’m ready to take this thing on again. 2020 and 2021 were years for reading widely and … Continue reading →

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