5 JUNE 1993, page 38

The Island Again

The season slid from Winter to the next, snowdrop and crocus to hawthorn blossom, the hum of bees, then pansy, rose, chrysanthemum. The whole happy gamut hardly vexed by touches......

When The Mocking Had To Stop

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