Saturday 21 April 2018
spring flower walk, fritillaries, cowslips and a snail on a thorn, pippa's song by robert browning, sackler sundays
Too wet to garden last weekend, so starting on the allotment was delayed yet more.
Went on a spring flower walk beside the Thames instead. Wonderful!
Love snake's head fritillaries!
Was intrigued by the snail on the blackthorn, though - and there were many more of them.
Brought to mind Robert Browning's poem, Pippa's Song:
The year's at the spring,
And day's at the morn;
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
The lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in His heaven—
All's right with the world!
Why do snails like to climb thorns!
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At the Sackler Library, we recently introduced Sunday opening - all the year round. This has been an exciting development - one which has been really popular with readers. I wrote a piece about it for the library blog before Easter. While it has my byline, however, this was very much a collaborative post involving a number of colleagues, who added design and editorial content. Then there's the Sunday team, who make everything work!
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