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They turn up in the same drawer as the darning egg and the shoe horn, and neither of them makes any sense to anybody under seventy.
One is…
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It was a tin. A shortbread tin, a tobacco tin, a coffee can, a cigar box, a glass jar - and inside it, several hundred buttons, loose, mixed,…
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There is a complaint that gets made constantly and is usually dismissed as nostalgia: nobody can sharpen anything any more.
It happens to be true, and the reason…
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Homemade soap gets presented now as a craft - a hobby with nice packaging, essential oils, moulds in the shape of flowers, and a certain amount of talk…
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In 1964 the planting right against the door of a house was flowers, and it was kept strictly separate from the vegetables, which were out back in rows.…
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In 1964 a grape arbor was a built structure before it was a plant - posts set in the ground, an overhead frame, cross members or wire for…