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If you liked this….Rebecca Fletcher’s picks for further Rural Landscape novels
Landscapes can be so much more than backdrops to novels – they can become protagonist or plot driver. As Costa Award Novel Winner Claire Fuller, our special guest for this month’s Are You Sitting Comfortably? shared, the story of Jeanie and Julius in Unsettled Ground emerged from a photograph of an abandoned caravan her son had found in the woods. Who had lived there? What was it like to be on the…
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Are You Sitting Comfortably? With Gone to Seed – Rural Landscapes
Who better to sponsor our rural landscapes book blog than Gone to Seed – online specialists in dried and gift flowers. Founded by Luke and Elly Collings, whose wedding like so many recently, was rearranged three times. Finally able to hold a small winter wedding, the couple foraged for flowers and mixed them with dried stems and out of an exasperating situation arose a beautiful wedding and a fantastic new…
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The meaning behind flowers, and why I didn’t go down the traditional red rose route for my Valentine’s day bouquet
For those of you who have followed me on Instagram and via my blogs, you will have gathered that I have a thing for flowers, both in my garden and my home. My garden is taking a bit of a back seat this week as I focus on everything to do with Valentine’s day – one of the things COVID cannot touch nor cancel is LOVE. This year I wanted to use my Valentine’s bouquet to…
