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Picklemas

Picklemas is an invented festival held approximately three months before Christmas, dedicated to preserving seasonal produce. And lemons this year.

What is a clough?

I love getting postcards from my mum

"...Walked from Abereiddy to Penberri and back via Tretio. Watched seals and their pups; some of the pups swimming the calm waters as their parents swam watchfully near by..."

Adlestrop

Yes. I remember Adlestrop -

The name, because one afternoon

Of heat the express-train drew up there

Unwontedly. It was late June.

The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.

No one left and no one came

On the bare platform. What I saw

Was Adlestrop - only the name

                                                      

And willows, willow-herb, and grass

And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,

No whit less still and lonely fair

Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

And for that minute a blackbird sang

Close by, and round him, mistier,

Farther and farther, all the birds 

Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

EDWARD THOMAS (1878 - 1917)