Monthly Archives: June 2019

£158

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Dystonia Girl

This week, I learnt that Boris Johnson gets paid £23,000 per month for his weekly column in Monday’s Daily Telegraph. This article gets the top slot, centre pages, opposite the newspaper’s editorial leaders. At an average of 1,250 words per … Continue reading →

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From Little Acorns

Posted on June 10, 2019 by Dystonia Girl

…Mighty oaks do grow.” But from a packet of seeds attached to the front of a magazine, there’s a lot sweet peas to sow. The pictures show a fraction of the plants we’ve managed to grow, in just a few, … Continue reading →

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The Roman Gardener

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Dystonia Girl

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need” Marcus Tullius Cicero (106BC – 43BC) certainly understood the benefits of combining a love of nature and the outdoors, with a scholastic mindset.  And as I kick … Continue reading →

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