In Cumbria recently, I visited two monuments which – it occurred to me – oddly have something in common. I’ll get back to that. Heading for the Maryport Literature & Arts festival in March, I stopped off at Penrith and walked up Penrith Beacon, a fine precipitous wooded hill (‘fell’ in local parlance) overlooking the […] The post ODD MONUMENTS appeared first on Grevel Lindop.| Grevel Lindop
‘I wandered lonely as a cloud…When all at once I saw a crowd, a host, of golden daffodils. William Wordsworth. (1) In the early 20th century the daffodil was under attack from a deadly disease which affected the bulb and the general health of the plant. It resulted in a Wisley botanist James Kirkham Ramsbotham […]|