Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners, first published in 1991, she brings together a diverse and fascinating selection of gardening writing spanning the centuries, the seasons and the species.
Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, pocket sized classics with ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover.
The contents are eclectic and wide ranging, practical as well as lyrical - she pays homage to the great English landscape artists of the eighteenth century and to the great women gardeners such as Vita Sackville West. There’s advice from Pliny on how walnuts can be used to dye hair and Joseph Addison encourages blackbirds to gorge on his cherry trees. Linking the numerous extracts is Elizabeth Jane Howard’s perceptive and highly personal commentary which skilfully
EMPOWERING: Deb Batton, Sharon Gruenert and Spenser Inwood will present Casting Off at Naracoorte Town Hall next month.
A TRIO of gutsy circus women will defy their years and cast off conformist stereotypes in a Naracoorte showcase next month.
Casting Off – billed as a fabulously funny, politically profound and heart-warming show – will takeover Naracoorte Town Hall on March 18.
Three generations of intrepid women in their 30s, 40s and 60s will inspire and start conversations on gender politics, age expectations, personal histories, life
advice and the mental load.
“We honour the complexity of being women, the mental load we carry and the unhelpful attitudes we often disguise as coping,” performer Deb Batton said.
But Clooney isn t the first silver-screen hero to be a master of domestic chores.
Heart-throb George Clooney has revealed that during lockdown he has been doing seven loads of laundry a day, but there are six things you may not know about Hollywood s housework heroes
1.
Hollywood cowboy John Wayne was a dab hand at needlework. In intervals during the filming of The Searchers (1956), he knitted himself a medium-length woollen scarf with alternating cerise and lime stripes. Fair to say, that was one of the finest scarves ever worn by a man, he recalled in his best-selling memoir Casting Off, and it kept me mighty warm whenever my sitting room was assailed by a draught.