This piece is a tribute to poet and writer Kate Llewellyn (1936…), and also a review of one of her early books, The Mountain, published in 1989. I have been reading it again in my Blue Mountains garden, surrounded by the fragrance of Daphne. It was the
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Where would we gardeners be without our wheelbarrows? I have early memories of being carted out in one by my older siblings. They have always provided fun for kids. I was interested to discover that the development of the wheelbarrow began in China around AD200. Chuko Liang,
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WHAT IS A SCONE? According to the Bloomsbury Dictionary of Word Origins, scone derives from the Dutch schoonbrood – schoon meaning bright, white or beautiful and brood meaning bread, hence; ‘fine white bread’. The name made its way into Scottish English and did not become widespread in
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