For information about the garden see: dorothyclivegarden.co.uk/

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I was very pleased by the position of the cloud.

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Epilobium hirsutum.

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Sandon Hall is a 19th-century country mansion, the seat of the Earl of Harrowby. It is a Grade II* listed building set in 400 acres of parkland.The Bonaparte connection is that a member of the family married his niece, only to discover that she was married already (she then nicked his money and disappeared).

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Yesterday and today several homeowners in and around Eccleshall opened up their gardens to hoi palloi in aid of charity. There are some rather splendid ones, and those off the high street especially have long, narrow back gardens (probably 'burgages' dating back hundreds of years). We had to have a cup of tea and a homemade cake in one of them, purely to boost the charitable donations obviously.

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