Hands off our May Day Protest

Autumn into Winter..

Even the simplest things can be beautiful..

1930s BBC schools broadcast leaflets

I do wish they would reprint these books with their original Vanessa Bell covers...

Books. Lovely, lovely books.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. ~Ross MacDonald

Words that go well together - Autumn. Sunday. Afternoon. Stroll.

If you click on the pictures, I think they get bigger

If you go down to the woods today...

 Wittan, Witty or Mountain Ash, below, was widely held to be sacred and powerful in Britain until very recently.

"Heaps of people have never seen the sunrise...they've missed something. I think there ought to be a law that says everyone must watch a sunrise and everyone must see a bluebell wood and a buttercup field and..."

Enid Blyton's Adventurous 4