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In Defense of Bad Taste: The Story of Toad Hall

In Defense of Bad Taste: The Story of Toad Hall

By Marianne Willburn|2018-06-22T11:04:39+00:00June 22nd, 2018|

I spent a quiet afternoon two weeks ago working in a small garden outside my guest room windows. The room is built into a sloping bank and partially surrounded by a deck, and therefore the garden is not only visible on an intimate level from below, but from a larger, birds-eye view above – a [...]

Here We Go Again….Or Will We?

Here We Go Again….Or Will We?

By Marianne Willburn|2018-02-20T20:40:47+00:00June 10th, 2017|

There’s an extremely serious discussion going on at my place right now. At issue is whether or not I go to the trouble of setting up a large water feature on the deck and create tropical madness for future August dinner parties. It was lovely, lush and tropical, but I'm itching for something [...]