10 May 2014
Ann’s Journal …..! Thoughts and meanderings from my occasional diary pages
It’s good to be able to say hello through my new online diary pages: ‘Ann’s Journal’ meanderings amongst some of my activities and things I love. I hope you will enjoy what you see, and will add the blog in which I am posting this to your favourites. You can also find me on Facebook: https:// www.facebook.com/ ann.somersetmiles as well as Twitter: https://twitter.com/ a_somersetmiles - plus my various Blogs.
Meeting friends and acquaintances!
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This week’s diary pages are coming to you direct from the RHS Malvern Spring Festival (in west Worcestershire, England, for those of you living beyond these shores). At least, the plan is to write it here, but depending on how I get on and WiFi availability, it may not be added to my ‘Wild Somerset Child’ blog until we arrive home. I cannot tell you what a strange experience this is for me, to be writing not for a client or a professional commission, but purely to please myself. The criteria are so very different and thoughts running madly through my mind take me back to the days before I was a published author - the years when I wrote whatever and whenever, in numerous notebooks still stashed all over the house.!
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Well today’s pages will at least have some planning! First task is to select images from the many I have been taking, then sifting literature and notes -in-myhead, making a list and juggling what will fit the available space.!
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My favourite show garden: ‘A Fruity Story’ - Twigs Gardens (Richard Wanless)
! Impromptu supper in our caravan - noodles, salmon and asparagus
Ann Somerset Miles
(author, photo journalist & mixed-media artist) 1
10 May 2014
The story relating to the range of composts produced by Dalefoot Composts is fascinating. Based in Cumbria, their products are environmentally-friendly and most certainly the best I have used.
And I have to have my fix of ribbons, buttons, fabric and all manner of delights that I use in the stitched paper and textile booklets. Check NaturaLeigh (they won a First Prize for their Stand) to discover their full range of products. (Below, in conversation with Kim Hurst of The Cottage Herbery.)
Yesterday was one of heavy showers but today (Friday 10th) is beautiful. Time to talk to Richard about the design and creation of his garden. I could have sat for hours in this quiet space, just writing. Time, too, to catch up friends and acquaintances, and make new ones. ! I discovered Wright’s Culinary Delights, based just over the other side of the Malvern Hills. RQ and I just love to buy ‘fresh and local’ wherever we travel. We ate last night’s supply and have just bought more!! More news shortly; not sure what the topic will be, but I’ll leave you this week with a collage of a few favourite memories from the ‘RHS Malvern Spring Festival’. Ann. x!
Ann Somerset Miles
(author, photo journalist & mixed-media artist) 2