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DIARY OF A LADY OF LIMITED LEISURE

... Virginia stock and Brussels sprouts, they will not be put off with bits where nothing will grow anyway except ground elder and blackberries, and when I am browbeaten into allotting them stretches of arable land which could hold a few more tomatoes or even st ...

Published: Wednesday 02 June 1954
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 804 | Page: 57 | Tags: Illustrations 

The Girl who wanted to Dance

... the one in Wales and the other in England. It was rich on its banks with celandines and vetches, grasses and briars and blackberries. It was a way which Uriah loved, for it was here that forty years ago he had said goodbye to his parents. He had been twenty ...

Published: Friday 01 October 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4581 | Page: 72 | Tags: Illustrations 

The little weakness of Madame Thibaud

... to the framed enlargement over the sideboard: un mistakably the bridal pair. Monsieur Thibaud, fiercely moustachioed, blackberry- eyed, wearing his medal of the first World War and holding a straw boater surrounded by a diagonally-striped ribbon, supported ...

Published: Wednesday 01 December 1954
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 4134 | Page: 67 | Tags: Illustrations 

IMPERIAL CHEMICAL INDUSTRIES LIMITED

... Wildfowlers who please they will eat almost anything water beetles, value their sport will be wise to follow the example blackberries, tadpoles, acorns, grain, slugs, aquatic of the experts, and to give some thought to conser- i plants, cockles their menu ...

Abigail AND THE DRUMMER

... brown snake to her father's stud farm. On each side was a hedge knee-deep in strong green bracken and set with mauve-white blackberry flowers the dew on its cobwebs had gone this morning for it was Saturday and she was later. She thudded down the lane. The ...

Published: Monday 01 August 1955
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2813 | Page: 66 | Tags: Illustrations 

WONDERFUL WINE--and it's home made!

... the time it is made. But it is much better if you wait a year. Blackberry- wine is another favourite and can be made dry- or sweet. Pour a quart of boiling water over a gallon of blackberries and when cool, mash them up well with the hands, getting out ...

Published: Sunday 01 July 1956
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1425 | Page: 41 | Tags: Illustrations 

Saving the day

... day! There will be frozen sturgeon, live crayfish and frogs and an amazing assort ment of herbs from Rumania; Prague hams, blackberry, strawberry and other fruit liqueurs from Czechoslavakia; a special blue cheese (new to me) from Hungary and, from Poland ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 728 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

Saving the day

... day! There will be frozen sturgeon, live crayfish and frogs and an amazing assort ment of herbs from Rumania; Prague hams, blackberry, strawberry and other Iiuit liqueurs from Czechoslavakia; a special blue cheese (new to me) from Hungary and, from Poland ...

Published: Wednesday 22 August 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 739 | Page: 42 | Tags: Illustrations 

Corkscrews and tin-openers

... jelly, partridge in sherry wine jelly, haggis, cellophane-wrapped and packed in a can, and a dozen or more jellies such as blackberry and wild bramble, and vintage marmalade which is matured in the wood for several years. The next course was asparagus out ...

Published: Wednesday 21 August 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 532 | Page: 46 | Tags: Illustrations 

THIRTY DAYS HATH SEPTEMBER: Goldcrests... A Late Nest... Preparations of the Midgets for Migration

... naturally and not brought to market pitch by some precocious artifice apples and greengages, walnuts and hazelnuts, bullaces, blackberries, crabs and wild fruits, too, for decoration spindleberry and bryony, guelder-rose and briar the great branching candelabra ...

Wine and women

... would lay down I, on my part, remarked that when a claret or a burgundy had the arom, of warm blackberries, that was the one I would choose not English blackberries, but the wild ones of my native Canada, picked with the sun on them. At a wine-tasting, which ...

Published: Wednesday 23 October 1957
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 720 | Page: 52 | Tags: Illustrations 

Heyday of the presentation

... long. It is described as a ;quare Court train of pale pink Duchesse satin, lined with t same material, and ornamented with blackberries and flots if pink ribbons down the left side. It must have been no easy ask to control such an appendage, especially when ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1958
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1031 | Page: 22 | Tags: Illustrations