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7 May 2010  DEDICATED knitting lessons for pupils in Shetland will cease this year as far reaching local authority cost cutting measures start to bite. Shetland Islands Council services committee on Thursday agreed to save an annual £130,000 by dropping … Continue reading →

the gardening blog community is reacting in shock to the recent suicide by elspeth thompson.  below is a comment i left on a fellow ET lover blog: i reacted as you did – and was in shock. and still am. … Continue reading →

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Elspeth Thompson Photo: Andrew Crowley Note:  The Telegraph reports that death was by her own hand – this is so terribly upsetting. Elspeth Thompson, the much-loved gardening and interiors writer for The Sunday Telegraph who has died aged 48, had … Continue reading →

  MESSAGE FROM ELSPETH THOMPSON’S HUSBAND FRANK WILSON so sad (no details) sending prayers for her husband and daughter – this was one of my most favorite blogs –  do have a look at the wonderful posts about converting several … Continue reading →

he trash bags – six, all full to the dotted line – and the pile of larger branches cut down to the required length: the bed i cleaned up for my elder neighbor (the other ground floor apt)  – i … Continue reading →

  Wolfgang Wagner passed away on March 21, 2010 in his house in Bayreuth in southern Germany at the age of ninety. He directed the Bayreuth Festival, the legendary opera event in southern Germany, for 57 years before stepping down … Continue reading →

The Hobbit is such a concentrated dose of imagination that it can be tricky keeping the audience on board Published Date: 22 March 2010 By Kelly Apter TURNING JRR Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit into a stage show is quite a … Continue reading →

a looooooong day in the garden – since Thursday –  SIX bags of garden debris – leaves, branches etc. (photos on sunday). – cut up and bagged two huge branches for neighbor (husband out of town for two weeks) – … Continue reading →

two 3 hour stints in the garden over the last two days has resulted in three bags full of broken branchesa 3 foot high pile of large branches cut to the required lengtha clean patioa cleared up and ready for … Continue reading →