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A Tour Around Inley Drove Farm Garden in June and July, 2020: Part 2

Posted on July 17, 2020 by Francis Pryor

(This is the second part of the two special blogs written for visitors who would have come to our garden on a pre-booked tour, in June and July 2020. As everyone will know by now, we have had to cancel … Continue reading →

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A Tour Around Inley Drove Farm Garden in June and July, 2020: Part 1

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Francis Pryor

These two blog posts (this is the first part only) are written for the benefit of those visitors who would have come to our garden in a pre-booked tour, in June and July 2020. Sadly we have had to cancel … Continue reading →

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Our North Wales Break, Part 2: Gardens (or Size Isn’t Everything)

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Francis Pryor

A good holiday should make you think. I’ve never really been very set on the idea of using your holiday to ‘escape’ – but from what? From your normal daily life? If the answer to that is yes, then I’d … Continue reading →

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More Words on the Weirdness of the Season

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Francis Pryor

At last I now understand why politicians have invented Quangos (Quasi-autonomous non-governmental  organizations). It is of course to avoid blame. More to the point it’s to avoid having to make long-term decisions. So you tie the Quangos’ hands with stupid … Continue reading →

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A Few Roses: My Way of Saying Thank You

Posted on July 25, 2013 by Francis Pryor

I’m writing this on a train which is wending its way across those much-threatened sandy heathlands of Dorset, returning from a day’s filming in Cranborne Chase and at Bournemouth University, for a Time Team documentary. Last night in a very … Continue reading →

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Always Look on the Bright Side…

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Francis Pryor

Outside it’s grey, wet and gloomy. Forty-sixty millimetres of rain have been forecast for the Fens, but thank heavens the worst seems to have passed north of us. Let’s hope they don’t have too many floods in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, … Continue reading →

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