TopVeg - growing veg,fruit&herbs » poem http://topveg.com growing veg, fruit and herbs Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:43:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Happy Easter! http://topveg.com/2011/04/happy-easter/ http://topveg.com/2011/04/happy-easter/#comments Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:56:34 +0000 TopVeg http://topveg.com/?p=6449
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    Happiness is in the air
    And everyone is glad to share
    Those very special moments when
    Easter’s joys are here again!

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    ]]>     http://topveg.com/2011/04/happy-easter/feed/ 0     Time to bring in Mistletoe http://topveg.com/2010/12/time-to-bring-in-mistletoe/ http://topveg.com/2010/12/time-to-bring-in-mistletoe/#comments Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:47:36 +0000 TopVeg http://topveg.com/?p=6241
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    Mistletoe dries up in a warm room, but it will last for 2 or 3 weeks if it is kept cool.  So leave it in the porch and bring it into the house in Christmas week.

    twig-mistletoe

    twig-mistletoe

    Hang the mistletoe in doorways:

    • to ward off evil spirits
    • to create a bottleneck so everyone is channeled through & has to walk under the mistletoe.  Anyone walking under the mistletoe has to be kissed!!
    • “Pick a berry off the mistletoe
      For every kiss that’s given.
      When the berries have all gone
      There’s an end to kissing.”

    Christmas is the time to bring in the mistletoe!

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    ]]>     http://topveg.com/2010/12/time-to-bring-in-mistletoe/feed/ 0     November poem http://topveg.com/2010/12/november-poem/ http://topveg.com/2010/12/november-poem/#comments Sat, 04 Dec 2010 15:51:32 +0000 TopVeg http://topveg.com/?p=6233
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    November comes
    And November goes,
    With the last red berries
    And the first white snows.

    With night coming early,
    And dawn coming late,
    And ice in the bucket
    And frost by the gate.

    The fires burn
    And the kettles sing,
    And earth sinks to rest
    Until next spring.

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    ]]>     http://topveg.com/2010/12/november-poem/feed/ 0     The wonder of the world…… http://topveg.com/2010/10/the-wonder-of-the-world/ http://topveg.com/2010/10/the-wonder-of-the-world/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:24:35 +0000 TopVeg http://topveg.com/?p=6142
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    The wonder of the world
    The beauty and the power,
    The shapes of things,
    Their colours, lights and shades,
    These I saw.
    Look ye also while life lasts.

    The quotation appeared in all BB’s books as well as on his tombstone.  He developed a great love of nature from an early age when he roamed the countryside around  his home, Lamport Vicarage in  Northamptonshire. 

    The verse was copied  from a tombstone in a north-country churchyard by his father.

     

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    ]]>     http://topveg.com/2010/10/the-wonder-of-the-world/feed/ 0     Garden Poem http://topveg.com/2010/02/garden-poem/ http://topveg.com/2010/02/garden-poem/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:16:46 +0000 TopVeg http://topveg.com/?p=5131 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> This poem written by Rod Whitworth is on  the garden gate at the start of the poetry trail at Nostell Priory

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