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The Botanic Gardens Again ..

Posted on 02/11/2024 by carolinemmurray

I am cheating, by using a lot of photographs, as my brain is still too full of mush to write coherently, but Cambridge University Botanic Garden Alpine House is now (as always at this time of year and in spring) … Continue reading →

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Lord Samuel’s Bequest

Posted on 19/08/2024 by carolinemmurray

It is far too long since I last managed to complete a blog. I continue to be permanently exhausted, and my brain is mush – so much so that when I wanted to add an updating link to my 2020 … Continue reading →

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The Eight Wonders of the World

Posted on 02/06/2024 by carolinemmurray

(NB: This is a blog which I posted in 2020 and managed to delete while I was trying update it today … another example of my current and continuing brain fog.) One of the many ways in which my day … Continue reading →

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The Uses of Quercus suber

Posted on 08/01/2024 by carolinemmurray

I’ve been trying to remember when the first screw-top caps for wine bottles came in. First there were rigid plastic ‘corks’, and then aluminium screw-caps – sometimes even for wines which in our rather lowly circle might be described as … Continue reading →

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Plant of the Month: October 2023

Posted on 18/10/2023 by carolinemmurray

One of the plants continuing to flower in this most unusual October weather has been Ceratostigma plumbaginoides, or the hardy plumbago plant. It is native to western China, and seems to have been discovered on an expedition by the Russian … Continue reading →

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St Thomas’s Onions

Posted on 11/10/2023 by carolinemmurray

Part of my early morning routine (assuming I have the time to do anything except swallow my medication and dash out of the house) is to read the daily blog of the great and good Gentle Author: https://spitalfieldslife.com/. He posts … Continue reading →

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More Palazzi

Posted on 08/10/2022 by carolinemmurray

I have remarked in the past that for a person of my advanced age and  personal taste, the chief reason for being in Venice during the Biennale d’Arte (and this applies even more to the Biennale d’Architettura) is the opportunity … Continue reading →

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Plant of the Month: July 2022

Posted on 16/07/2022 by carolinemmurray

Three or four years ago, I bought a Phygelius capensis (Cape fuchsia or Cape figwort) at Cambridge market. It performed extremely well, and when I revolutionised the garden layout in January 2021, it was one of the plants which (to … Continue reading →

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Reasons To Be Cheerful

Posted on 12/05/2022 by carolinemmurray

I posted this blog ten minutes ago, at which point everything except the title disappeared (possibly not unconnected with the content). So I’m having another go … Among the (very first-world) disadvantages of Covid are: having to cancel a trip … Continue reading →

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St Clement(s)

Posted on 30/04/2022 by carolinemmurray

Out and about in the wilderness populated by dragons that is north Cambridge a few days ago, I visited (as well as Kettle’s Yard – Ai Weiwei, do go!) St Peter’s church, and, on my way back down, St Clement’s. … Continue reading →

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