Prompted by a comment yesterday from Anne of Something Over Tea I have today scanned sample pages from
The poems speak for themselves. Nicholas Roe’s introduction is informative and helpful.
Peter Reddick also designed the cover boards, and
decorated the pages with fine bucolic engravings, as fitted the poet.
Including pages of explanatory notes this volume contains almost 500 large format pages.
This evening we all dined on Jackie’s wholesome cottage pie; Lionnaise potatoes; carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, and runner beans, with which I drank Patrick Chodot Fleurie 2022, from a bottle Jackie had bought for me for my post operative return, yet which I hadn’t been able to open until now.