"There can be no other occupation like gardening in which, if you were to creep up behind someone at their work, you would find them smiling." - Mirabel Osler "Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.  But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.  Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing, inhibits and embarrasses them." - Victoria Glendinning "The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the ...

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Everyone wants to show their partner how much they care about them, how much they love them & birthday is one such opportunity. Don’t miss it, just grab it & use as much as you can. Everybody loves to spend the whole day with their sweetie-pie, especially if the day has a special value like birthday. Be specific or make a plan about what you want to do to celebrate the day. You are celebrating your partner’s birthday, it doesn’t mean that ...

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When Ruth was left half desolate, Her Father took another Mate; And Ruth, not seven years old, A slighted child, at her own will Went wandering over dale and hill, In thoughtless freedom, bold. And she had made a pipe of straw, And music from that pipe could draw Like sounds of winds and floods; Had built a bower upon the green, As if she from her birth had been An infant of the woods. Beneath her father's roof, alone She seemed to live; her thoughts her own; Herself her own delight; Pleased with herself, ...

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