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Tell us about St Piran, said Wolf, who loved the well-worn tales. "Well," said Old Fox, as if telling for the first time, "he was tied to a mill-stone by jealous fellows in Ireland, and thrown over the top of a cliff as high as our White Nothe. The sea below was dark and stormy and heaving, but the moment that worn old stone broke the water, it calmed, calmed to the glassy still of a mill pond itself! He floated day and night like a calm, spinning otter, gazing up at the passing summer clouds and the bright stars, until he reached the coast of Cornwall. He washed up at first light, and was found and untied and blanketed and fed and watered by his very first disciples - a Fox, a Badger & a Bear. A very scholarly trio from the nearby village. Good and sensible companions. Kind as could be. Noble Cornish folk. And he taught them there on the long, curved beach of Perranzabuloe, where we went that time on our holiday, where the Atlantic roars day and night. Their seminary was in a sheltered hollow full of flowers - shepherd's needle and sea thrift and weasel's-snout - and butterflies, so many butterflies, their wings as silvery and bright as a mermaid's scales.

Happy St Piran's Day, one and all!

Xxxxx

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Tell us about St Piran, said Wolf, who loved the well-worn tales. "Well," said Old Fox, as if telling for the first time, "he was tied to a mill-stone by jealous fellows in Ireland, and thrown over the top of a cliff as high as our White Nothe. The sea below was dark and stormy and heaving, but the moment that worn old stone broke the water, it calmed, calmed to the glassy still of a mill pond itself! He floated day and night like a calm, spinning otter, gazing up at the passing summer clouds and the bright stars, until he reached the coast of Cornwall. He washed up at first light, and was found and untied and blanketed and fed and watered by his very first disciples - a Fox, a Badger & a Bear. A very scholarly trio from the nearby village. Good and sensible companions. Kind as could be. Noble Cornish folk. And he taught them there on the long, curved beach of Perranzabuloe, where we went that time on our holiday, where the Atlantic roars day and night. Their seminary was in a sheltered hollow full of flowers - shepherd's needle and sea thrift and weasel's-snout - and butterflies, so many butterflies, their wings as silvery and bright as a mermaid's scales.

Happy St Piran's Day, one and all!

Beneath a cloudless sky, lark-song glass-bright in the fields, Old Fox and Pine Marten were picking the first daffodils, from the long garden lawn which sloped down to the river. It was an early March day of such sweet beauty that their flagging spirits were lifted & their hearts sang, as they filled their baskets with the pale, papery flowers.

It's old lore! Ancient magic!

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The morning of the second of March. Five and twenty past eight. "I'm terribly sorry to call so early," said the Dragon of Kensington Church Street to Old Fox, "just wanted to wish you a happy St David's Day for yesterday! I quite forget, I'm ashamed to say. May I make a toast over the telephone? I'm drinking a very nice cup of tea as I speak." Old Fox made the necessary salutations and soothing phrases – "quite alright," "no bother at all!" "I believe the Bishop would enjoy an extra day!" – and together, one in a warm, book-lined study in a Dorset cottage, the other in a rather smart sitting room in a London flat, they toasted Saint David and his mother, Saint Non, and her mother and grandmother before her, and then they settled down to a very enjoyable catch-up, as the first warm sun of the year streamed in and the first daffodils nodded in park and field.

And to you!

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Beneath a cloudless sky, lark-song glass-bright in the fields, Old Fox and Pine Marten were picking the first daffodils, from the long garden lawn which sloped down to the river. It was an early March day of such sweet beauty that their flagging spirits were lifted & their hearts sang, as they filled their baskets with the pale, papery flowers.

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Indy did it! He did it! He made it all the way to Bath along the Cotswold Way! More photos to follow, but in the meantime, here are our boots on the end point, the famous blue limestone roundel at Bath Abbey. I'm so proud of him! Please donate if you can!

Make today the day you hold the paw of someone in need.

Yes, there’s the Hermione, a replica of Lafayette’s frigate. My son was 7 when we went - he really enjoyed himself.

I loved the one in Rochefort! Can heartily recommend.

I love this post so much

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The Rabbit, by a branch of red berries in a snowy field.

There was once a rabbit who dreamt of wild adventure, of liners sailing to Brazil, carrot fields in Norfolk, creameries in Normandy. I have a small life, he said. But before he died, he looked up at his beloved human & he realised that a life of love is never slight, not at all.

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The Rabbit, by a branch of red berries in a snowy field.

There was once a rabbit who dreamt of wild adventure, of liners sailing to Brazil, carrot fields in Norfolk, creameries in Normandy. I have a small life, he said. But before he died, he looked up at his beloved human & he realised that a life of love is never slight, not at all.

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Still.

Thank you so much for writing that - I've had a really horrible day and it was so lovely to read. xxx

It truly is a balm for the soul! You won’t regret joining this beautiful world that Anne has created. She is a genius!