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Saturday 22 January 2022

January Musing - A Posy On The Kitchen Table


"Every day of the year there would be a posy to greet you on the kitchen table. Pushed at random into a little pot to suitable utensil, the posy would be there come rain or shine, and it was the reward of adventure, the fruit of labour or the chance happening of something one of her many birds had brought to the garden. In this posy were mapped the weeks of the year. A spring of Hamamelis and Galanthus in January, or a tuft of old man's beard and rosehips come autumn. Her posies were the garden distilled in a jam jar, and often she would pick a spring that you might admire from the assemblage and push into your hand as the making of a cutting. She shared her garden well, and to this day I try to keep a posy from my own garden"


Illustration - Winifred Nicholson

11 comments:

  1. Oh what a brilliant quotation, Anna, and the perfect picture to accompany it - was the picture in the book? A good advert for IAVOM! Thanks for sharing, Anna

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    1. The illustration isn't in the book Cathy but one across when I was browsing. Fond thoughts of IAVOM came into my mind when I was writing itπŸ˜‚

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  2. A lovely quote and illustration. I expect most of us do the same, but not in a jam jar.

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    1. Thank you Chloris. I must confess to using the odd jam jar for flowers at times πŸ˜‚

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    2. My 'jam' jar had olives in - but it is such a pretty shape.

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  3. A wonderful quote, Anna - and the illustration couldn't be better.

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  4. Oh thanks for your kind words Kris πŸ˜€

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  5. What a pretty posy. Love that quote: '…the garden distilled in a jam jar'. :)

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    1. Thanks Cathy. The snippet that you quote says it all πŸ˜€

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