The Joy Of Using Up

The other day I realized that we are almost out of tomato season. It happened quicker this year than last year. But each time we pick tomatoes there are less then the last harvest, more are unripe or rotten before we can get to them and each bush produces less. No more tomatoes and cheese, no more salsa and fresh sauce, no more tomatoes garnishing our salads and pastas. It made me sad.

But then, the weather took a cold spell and I saw a potato. Mmmm, I thought, we haven’t had potato soup in forever!

Part of being as zero waste as possible is eating with the seasons, eating what’s available when it is ripe and fresh. One might think that this is restricting, but really, it’s only the joy of using up. All winter we eat great and hearty winter veg and in the summer, those are set aside to have fresh light summer fruits and vegetables. A perfect balance and nothing is given up.

6 More Months of Zero Waste | September - Back to School!

It’s time for back to school, but this year is a little different for most people for many reasons. For anyone starting on their zero waste journey, this is a great opportunity to practice your zero waste and plastic free skills. For those who have been practicing for years, this is a good reminder to keep learning!

Back to school means new text books, new notebooks, new supplies. But make it zero waste! Once you’re used to thrifting and foraging, it’s easy to find school supplies second hand. Family and friends might have pens and notebooks they will not use (almost everyone has a surplus of pens somewhere in the house, right?), thrift shops and rummage sales usually have school supplies. Backpacks, school clothes, lunch boxes, water bottles, and other supplies are easy to thrift. Keep your eye out for yard sales! Pens, pencils, paperclips, and rubber bands are surprisingly easy to find dropped on the sidewalk. A quick sanitize and they are good as new. Most college bookshops have almost all the books in a syllabus second hand. Make sure you are donating your books at the end of each semester!

We can work at not using plastic and not generating waste while we are in school, too. We can pack our lunches, use digital media, avoid the campus cafe and bring our coffee from home. Many hand outs can be recycled, or reused. Art supplies for projects can be foraged, borrowed or culled from “junk”.

The other opportunity we have while going back to school is to educate anyone and everyone who might not be familiar with zero waste. When we lead by example, when we reach out to answer questions, or notice when people are surprised at our choices and make the effort to talk about and explain them, we are starting the seed that could grow into someone else’s Zero Waste Journey. It’s important to talk about your zero waste choices when ever and how ever you can! Teaching others about the perils of waste and plastic is an exciting avenue for our knowledge.

Back to school is a time to educate others about zero waste, but it’s a good time to educate ourselves as well! Even if you’re not in school, the school season is a good time to pick up a new book, delve into research on a subject you want to know more about, or talk to someone you’ve been meaning to about their lifestyle.

It might seem daunting when you have life milestones, like going back to school, sending your kids to school, or whatever circumstances you might be in near the school year, to stay zero waste. But thinking ahead, putting aside convenience, and remembering our overall goal for ourselves and the planet, will make your back to school one more step our our zero waste and plastic free journey!

If you are new to this series, here’s what we are working on for this 6 month block. Follow along or pick and choose challenges to try.:
June 2020- Say NO, Say Yes
PLASTIC FREE JULY
August 2020 - Carry No Disposables
September 2020 - Back to School/Educate
October 2020 - Beach Clean
November 2020 - Hidden Plastic
December 2020 - Repair Before You Replace

We started our tackling new zero waste challenges six months at a time in 2019: January 2019 - Trash Audit
We separated and looked our trash to see what we are throwing away and what we can reduce.
February 2019- Declutter Everything
We went thru what we have to declutter and reduce.
March 2019- Switch to Paper
This month we moved to paper to get one step closer to reusables.
April 2019- Compost
Composting is an easy way to reduce food waste and prevent it from reaching the landfill.
May 2019- Meatless Monday
One of the best ways to improve the environment is to stop eating factory farmed meat and industrial fish. Small steps lead to big change so this month we gave up meat (or dairy or fish) for at least one day.
June 2019- No Bottled Water
We gave up bottled water as an avenue to give up more disposable plastic in Plastic Free July.
July 2019 - Plastic Free July!
Go plastic free this month!

In late 2019, we continued our journey to becoming more zero waste:
November 2019 - Zero Waste Kit
We created a zero waste kit to help us be more zero waste in our day to day life.
December 2019- No Gifts
We took Dec to give no gifts and get no gifts.
January 2020 - Clothing and Fast Fashion
This month we explored what fast fashion is, and how we can stop buying it forever.
February 2020- Use Mass Transit
The shortest month seemed like a good time to explore alternatives to driving our cars.
March 2020 - Bathroom Make-over
You’ve swapped out a few items to more sustainable choices around the house. It’s time to tackle a full room.
April 2020- Grow Your Own Food
April marks the start of spring in the continental USA, and when we can start growing food easily. But there are many ways and time to grow your some of own food.

Slow Stitching Goal Sliding

It’s more than half way thru the month and it doesn’t look like I’m going to finish my goal of two quilt finishes in September. I may not even finish one! I will continue working on this quilt that I started way back in 2009, but I will see how far I get. Although, my September goal feels like it’s sliding away from me, I have high hopes that I can start fresh in October. For the rest of this month, I will try not to worry about my goals but simply enjoy the slow stitching.

Linking up with Kathy’s Quilts and Slow Stitching Sunday.

Death of an Expert Witness

One of my goals in 2020 is to read more. See other books I've read or listened to here.

Death of An Expert Witness by PD James is the 6th novel in the Adam Dalgliesh series. This is also the 6th book I’ve read in the series even though I have NOT read them in order.

In one of the most important forensic labratory in England, it seems impossible that there would be a murder. Does the walled in lab hold the secret of this gruesome crime? Or could it be a random act of violence? Detective Dalgliesh must find out.

By now, avid readers might recognize the closed community, in this case a locked laboratory with a walled in campus, the jealousies and passions of a such a community, the twists and turns of such relationships. This cast had a lot of varied characters, some we’ve never seen before in this series, some more venomous or independent than many we have seen before. A relationship or variety of character that James continually examines is that of close siblings. In many of her books, brother and sister not only live together but share an unsettling bond of some kind. Although none of her books, that I have read, have explicitly taken the relationship to an extremely inappropriate place, in many cases the writing keeps you guessing if there is more going on than the reader is seeing. This creates a particular type of tension that builds the story and bleeds to other characters. What do the people in this community think or imagine is going on between these siblings? In all of James’ books, I find a character that I like and want to discover what their fate will be but in Death of an Expert Witness there was so many unlikeable people! That being said, I really enjoyed this book and although James uses many of the same plot devises, I like to find out where the subtle differences will be! I recommend this book to those on Adam Dalgliesh’s journey, as I am, those who enjoy the intrigue and affairs of closed communities, and of course, readers who love murder mysteries.

How do you read series? Always in order or do you jump around as the books come to you?

On My Mind On Friday Morning

Love these gorgeous moth photos.
I’m low on garlic and onion powder. Now that it’s getting cooler, I think I’ll make my own.
I love the idea of a To Done list.
Think twice before you litter, your bad habit might come back to you two fold.
We recently bought two clearence pear trees to try our hand (again) at fruit trees. I did not realize they were late summer bloomers. Ours are NOT blooming, but I saw these blossoms on a nearby tree and wondered if it, too, was pear?

Something Nice

My new bujo (to start in Oct) arrived in the mail! I have started working on the yearly spreads and can’t wait to get more into the meat of it!

BookTube is a Thing

And I’m loving it.

I only discovered it a little over a moth ago and I’m already hooked! I already can’t remember how I first discovered it, but I know that some of the first videos I watched were BooksandLaLa’s Closet Clean Out Unhaul series (see below). I stayed up late one night and watched every video. I was hooked.

Here’s what wikipedia says about BookTube. A subset of YouTube, it was basically started by publishers to drum up interest in physical books again. Although it is a tool for publishers (and authors) to make money and often features new releases and focuses on books that the publishing world want to make popular, BookTube has taken on a life of it’s own.

Videos you may see include book reviews, hauls, reading vlogs, wrap ups, tag videos, and to be read (TBR) posts. Many BookTubers read those popular books, many do book subscription unboxing and other commercial aspects of this subculture. But many go their way; read classics, make interesting reading choices, read secondhand books, or otherwise make it their own. One of the biggest goals for BookTubers is to connect to other readers thru the books they read and the videos they make.

If this sounds interesting to you, here are some channels to get you started. I was lucky enough to find BooksandLaLa and her series where she looked back at her first TBR list and either read or unhauled the books each month.

A lot of BookTubers are women and it’s a little harder to find male driven channels (much like all of youtube). I really enjoy Gabriel Armstrong’s channel bc he has an engaging style and reads interesting books. His videos are sparse, but really entertaining. The Mid Year Book Freak Out Tag was the next thing I became obsessed with on BookTube, and I really enjoyed his.

If you watch videos mainly for the aesthetic, we have the flip side from the last rec, which is KalynAbridged. Her videos are so pretty! She reads a lot of course, but she also does more traditional influencer vids like night routines, DITL, bullet journaling, and thrift with me’s as well.

I have so many other recommendations for this niche in youtube land, it was hard to pick only three! Let me know if you want to learn more of my favorites or share your own in the comments!

Lines and Fans

For the quilt I’m working on right now, I’m quilting with freehand fans and lines. I’ve never used this pattern before, and I’m really enjoying it! This is an easy quilt to sew lines on bc a lot of the fabric has patterns that can be used as a guide. Lines are kind of quick to quilt but also feel quite slow at the same time. I want to get the quilting finished soon, so I can move on to binding!

Red Dragon

One of my goals in 2020 is to read more. See other books I've read or listened to here.

I loved the show Hannibal and wanted to read the source material, starting with the first book Red Dragon by Thomas Harris.

Will Graham has left his time with the FBI behind him. He has a wife, he has a family, he has tried to forget the traumatic events of capturing Hannibal lector and the scars it has left on his mind and body. But when his old pal and boss. Jack Crawford comes for a visit, Will Graham knows his FBI days were never truly over.

I read this book in about 4 days. It’s a quick read compared to many of the books I had read around the same time. It is a heavy book in that there is a lot of violence and some gore. I have seen the show Hannibal, which primarily takes place before this book. I have never seen the two movies based on this book, Manhunter and Red Dragon. Since I wasn’t sure when the events of Hannibal related to this book going in, I was surprised where it picked up. I do not usually go into any book with such preconceived notions. That both made it easy and hard to read this book, I think. Once I got my bearings and realized that season three of the show was based on this book, I was surprised at how faithful to the source material it was. I had watched that season only a few weeks before and could remember exact lines that had come directly from the book. It was interesting to see where changes were made and what charters were changed. The characters were not as likable as they had seemed in the show, but I still wondered about them and wanted to find out what happened to them. This book gave me “books advertised on the subway” vibes. Like, maybe not the most brilliant book, but one that would be quick and easy to read. Overall I liked this book and look forward to reading the sequel, Silence of the Lambs. I would NOT recommend this book for those that don’t like horror, or books about killers or books where the violence could exist ion the real world. I would recommend this book for people interested in the source material of the show or movies, those who like easy to read psychological thrillers, or books about serial killers or forensic/FBI agents. I also have a love for authors who write several books, and when they want to stop are forced to write more by their publishers. That’s probably pretty rare, but it makes me want to read all the books and see what effect that has on the series.

Have you read this book? What are you thoughts? Do you have recommendations for other books that famous movies were based on?

On My Mind on Friday Morning

Very neat beach sculptures.
Bookshop.com seems like a very interesting endeavor. This Wired article tells more about the little book company taking on the big “everything store”.
Yes, please, I would like to live in a converted pub in England.
I only learned about a treasure hidden by an antiques dealer, but I’m fascinated by people who choose to do this. Forrest Fenn’s treasure was only recently found, and he just passed away.
You can tell it’s Fall and almost Halloween time when you come to this portend.

August Plant Update

Looking back at my plants photos of August, I didn’t take too many. We were quite busy, as I’ve said in just about August wrap up post. We did travel a bit and we did go to the beach so we got a wee bit a variety. A’m happy every month of the year that there are flowers to observe.

A little mushroom at Grover’s Mills NJ.

A happy bee on cloudy day.

Although it’s the high season, we have made it to the beach a few evenings this month.

Rose of Sharons remind me of my mother’s yard.

One of the flowers from our wildflower bed.

These puffy grasses are on my way to work.

Another beach sky.

Was August a busy month for you? Were you able to observe some plants around you?

2020 Monthly Goals | August in Review and September Goals

August was a busy month and I’m surprised that I got anything at all done on my goals list. Turns out I got something done on allllmost each goal.

Sew
I’ve started to get back into this and I want to make it part of my daily life.
This goal was unlocked and achieved.

Stretch
I have got to figure this goal out.
Nope. What is my block with this goal? I will roll it over. This is something I want to have a handle on bny the end of the year.

Make 1 video
it doesn’t matter what it is or what it’s about. I just gotta get the process started.
I’m counting this as partial. I definitely didn’t make a vid, but I did work on

Tattoo work
I want a tattoo, I want to tattoo. I just have to do something on this goal. Either book an appointment for a tattoo, or practice the art of tattooing.
I thought a lot about this goal and got a lot of encouragement and inspiration but didn’t actually do anything.

First steps on my book
In July, I had a realization of a book I want to write. I would like to take some baby steps to this.
I’m gonna say yes to this and hopefully expand my thoughts in a larger post.

And now we can move on to September. I have rolled over or defined some of my goals from last month.

Have two quilt finishes
Ahhhhh Back to quilting and back to finishing quilts. I do not think it’s unreasonable to get two finishes a month done for the rest of the year. We’ll see how Sept goes.

Stretch
Gosh. I really need this in my life.

Swim/beach
September swims!!!

Make 1 video
Ooof, I was close to actually getting this goal done in the very start of the month. Some set backs will make me have to fight for this one.

Tattoo work
I want to make an appointment before the end of the month and practice at least on fake skin to get back of tattooing.

Book step two
Step one was tiny, step two should be a bit ore calculated.

How did you do on your August goals? Did you roll any over into September?

New (Very Old) WIP

My plan for quilting for the rest of 2020 is to get at least two finishes per month. One of the things that I did upon returning to quilting was to see what quilts I have that are not finished. There are a lot of them.

My next WIP, the “new” quilt I’m working on, is very old! This quilt was started sometime in 2009, I believe. It’s ready for a finish! Irving is turning out to be quite a quilt cat and he is ready to help!

Linking up with Kathy’s Slow Sunday Stitching to get some inspiration and get moving on this very old WIP.

Everybody Loves Our Town

One of my goals in 2020 is to read more. See other books I've read or listened to here.

A freind from work recommended Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History Of Grunge by Mark Yarm after I mentioned reading a oral history of punk some years ago. I picked up a copy, but it took me quite a few years to actually read it.

A collection of interviews with almost everyone who was on the scene in Seattle and surrounding towns when “Grunge” started, this book tells the true tale of their time, their music, in their own words.

Many of the interviews in this book are new when writing, but some are from older interviews as well. In this way, the author is able to share voices of those who were lost druing or after this time. Many of the people in this book are now deceased and part of the running theme of this history is how the musicians and artists became currupted during or after thier climb to fame. Although now grunge is well known around the world, in the late 80s and early 90s Seattle was just another American city and not yet the birth place of this influential music movement. In a few short years, it became an epicenter of it’s time and produced some of the most well known bands in history. And yet, many of it’s founding member were left in relative obscurity. Many saw the climb of certain bands as a cash and fame grab rather than making music for the right reasons. As with the punk history I read, I really enjoyed learning how people felt as it was happening, from the player’s themselves. But there is, so long after the fact, a feeling that history has been changed a lot by perspective. This is neither bad nor good in this book. The artists have mostly all had some time to ruminate on their version of the history and are able to retell it having thought about it for many years. Having grown up during this time, and having experiences and opinions on this time and music myself, it felt in some small way that I added my own history to this book while reading it as well. Although I was experiencing these milestones from a far, I certainly have my own take on them. I would highly recommend this book for readers who like oral histories, non fiction about the resent past, those who liked or still love grunge music, and those who grew up in the 1990s..

Do you like to read books about music? What are some of your favorites?

On My Mind On Friday Morning

Two recent articles about the Reis Family that lives in LA in a big yellow bus.
Since becoming so interested in reading and books, I’ve also become re-interested in book shops. I’m always looking for places to buy used books since many book shops are still closed, or harder to shop at, and I want to avoid Am*zon if at all possible. One of the most famous and revered book shops in the world wants to avoid it also.
Naps are one of my favorite activities, if you can call sleeping an activity. This article on how long naps are bad for you won’t stop me!
I would not call these the funnest Douglas Adams quotes, but some of them I quite like.
This week I got to help an injured bird I found going into shock on the sidewalk. Unfortunately the best I could do was try to make her more comfortable in her last moments.

Mad Cat Garden | August

Another month, flown by! Summer garden is almost gone! We never had much luck with sunflowers, but in August we got a really nice one from our wildflower bed. The squirrels loved it too and once the head of the flower got heavy enough to bend, the squirrels ate every seed.

We had similar luck with our few beautiful strawberries. None were had by us, but birds and squirrels reaped the benefit. We have gotten our strawbs to a good place. They much prefer pots, we find, but are sending out shoots and runners so we must come up way to encourage them to grow new plants.

Something else the squirrels love eating are our raspberries. Our bush has quadrupled in size this summer, but we haven’t seen a single ripe berry.

We have two water barrels that were both gifted to us, and this summer we have used their content as well as rainfall to water the garden almost exclusively. It’s a nice feeling not to turn on the hose. I’m sure this is having an effect of some of our plants, but being a new gardener, I’m not sure what it is. Our tomatoes and peppers are producing well, but by the end of Aug are looking a little scraggly. This could have something to do with the water situation.

This is a year of experimentation and we have done so much. Peppers from saved seeds, some in pots, some not, lettuce, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, zucchini, chard (the squirrels ate it all before it could grow more than a few inches), soy beans, onions, potatoes, wildflowers, new things for us to grow, or new methods of growing. A lot of things we are letting go to seed, in order to observe, or save. Many things have worked and we will try again next year. Some we plan to plant again asap for our fall garden. A new crop of radishes are planted, some using seeds from earlier this year. I want to try ginger and garlic in the fall.

Our yard looks crazier and crazier, especially when it’s not mowed, but it is a paradise of growth, a maze of meals. And we wouldn’t want it any other way. The greenhouse makes it all the more intese, but we haven’t even finished or starting using it. It will prolong our season, I’m sure.

Our first home grown zucchini looked like a duck. We’ve eaten a lot since them in Aug. We have tomatoes every other day or so. Our favorite way is fresh cut with mozz cheese and vinegar or in simple sauces, or fresh over pasta with garlic and olive oil. We eat a lot of peppers, pepperonchini, shishitos, poblanos (although our crop this year is nowhere near as prolific as 2019). Our new favorite method to enjoy is blistered with a horseradish cream dipping sauce. We’ve had edemame, pananella salad, zucchini parm.

Due to social distancing we have not given away as much as last year, not shared as much. So we have had to come up with new ways to eat or preserve veggies. We are not great at it yet, but hope to get better.

We have had a very mild Summer here and I’m interested to see what September will be like.

What have been your biggest crops this year? What are you favorite garden meals? Have you been able to share with friends and family?

Bullet Journal Check In | Sept - Looking for New Book Inspo

September is here and my current bullet journal is almost used up so I have been seeking out what I will buy next. It’s like back to school!

The first thing I did was go thru some notebooks I’ve gotten second hand to see if one of those would work. My first choice would be to use one that I already have. I recently found a wealth of old sketch books and journals that I had gotten very many years and many years ago. Last year I picked up a handful of notebooks at a rummage sale. But alas, none dot grid, unfortunately and I really want to continue using a dot grid.

My normal next steps would be to go get thrifting! But since that’s not as easy as it used to be and since I’ve only been to the thrift once in the last 6 months this isn’t the best option for me right now.

So, on to the internet to start seeking out a sustainable option. I have used and really like the Decomposition notebooks before, so that’s a possibility. I had the oyster dot grid two BuJos ago and really enjoyed it. Being spiral bound was super easy to get to all the pages and the large format was nice to work with and design.

I took a look and enjoyed the Catskills design, too. This is dot grid but has too few pages, I think. I like my journals to last a good long while if possible. The exception I make to that would be a thrifted journal. Better to make do in that case.

I’ve seen journals and notebooks with paper made from reclaimed and recycled construction stone pop up a few times and I am intrigued! There are quite a few brands now: Karst looks interesting. All the stone paper lists smoothness as a quality and advantage, but that’s not my favorite when it comes to writing and drawing.

I might be most interested in the Cognitive Surplus notebooks (top photo). The covers are so pretty! I love the designs, the price is quite nice and they are made in the USA.

One factor that is important to me when choosing a notebook online is to avoid amazon. I’m trying hard to wean myself off that site.

I’m not sure what I will pick, but I only have a month to figure it out! Are there any sustainable, recycled journals and notebooks you have used and enjoyed? Are there any you would recommend?

August in Review

August went surprisingly quickly. This whole year has, don’t you think?

This was an extremely difficult month for us as we lost one of our cat family. Most of the month was spent nursing him, caring for him and trying to get the last moments we could together. This dominated most of our thoughts and actions this month.

We did have some plant observations and we did see some #watchercats in August.

We tried to get a few walks in and a few beach trips when we could. Between work and hospice care, we didn’t get out too much.

Although the month quickly, it felt suspended in time in some ways. And in some ways we wished the month would never end and we would never have to let our good friend go.

We will see how time and life moves on in September.

The End and the Return - A Finished Quilt

I started this quilt sometime in 2017. I had started this quilt with a destination for it in mind, but my unexpected hiatus made it never to be. I also had the intention with this quilt to do some stash busting. I grouped all the strip scraps of like sizes I had and sewed them into rows and then joined the long rows. I really like the way this combines all the different fabric, making it a treasure hunt of looking all all the varied patterns and colors. Many of the scraps are vintage, extremely old, or reclaimed fabrics.

For the backing I used a single piece of a vintage sheet. This is just the kind of sheet I like to keep and use on our beds, but it was only a twin size. I loved the pattern so much, and the vintage feeling of the fabric, I couldn’t pass it up at whatever thrift shop or rummage sale it was found. I like that such a busy fronted quilt has a single backing fabric.

I can’t remember what batting was used for this quilt, but the binding was made by folding over the backing. This is my favorite way to bind a quilt and what I most often use. This is a baby sized quilt and as with all my quilts is an irregular shape. It measures approximately 40 1/2” by 41 1/2”. The folded binding helps make this quilt have wobbly edges, which I always enjoy. I quilted this with intersecting freehand fans, which as also one of my go-tos.

I labeled this quilt with our newest acquired fabric, that was given to us by a friend. It’s a goal of mine not to buy new fabric before using a lot of what we already have. We have so much fabric and so much of it is amazing. Even when we aren’t seeking out new fabric, it finds us, somehow.

When I started playing with sewing again, piecing scraps here and there, I knew this was the quilt I wanted to finish first. Bc it had seen the end of my quilting, before several years off, I wanted it to be the return as well. There’s nothing so satisfying as a finish but when you are finishing an old quilt, sometimes you are not as in love with it was you once had been. This was not so for this little baby quilt. I might like this one more than I did as I was working on it over three years ago.

I’m so excited to get back to quilting and get back to linking up with Slow Sunday Stitching over at Kathy Quilts, one of my all time favorite quilt blogs.

What are your go to quilt patterns for stash or scrap busting?

The Wild Places

One of my goals in 2020 is to read more. See other books I've read or listened to here.

This copy of the The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane was bought from the Montague Housing Works thrift shop and had post card of a cat face in it. How did it come to me? I have no recollection.

A world traveller, Robert Macfarlane realizes one of his favorite wild places is a short walk from his house. He begins to wonder what other wild places are still in his home country or if there are any left. He takes the time to search them out in this book.

This book is divided into the different landscapes that the author visits and takes the reader on a tour of the wild and remote places in the British Isles. Full of visual and emotional observations, Macfarlane shares thoughts on travel, history, friendship, and what wildness means. This book was definitely a beautiful travelog, but also quite slow and a little bit hard to stick with. His travels have a sort of meandering style and his writing does, too, switching between historic details and his current quest. I really loved that his destinations were so varied and he took the reader to many contrasting locations, high mountaintops, fields, valleys, beaches. But I found it hard to identify with in many ways, as I have never travelled as described in the book. That these were experiences I have never had could have been inspiring and exciting, but mostly they felt a bit isolating. Sleeping in a ice drift seems like a mad idea, not a romantic revelation. There may have been some places that I would have liked to see while reading, but afterwards, I can’t remember them. They were beautifully described but the image doesn’t linger. More so, the story of Macfarlane himself is what sticks out about this book. His duel life between traveling and sleeping rough, his loyalty to his family and close friends, and discovery of his farsightedness when it comes to the wild places right outside his door. Being an anglophile, I did love learning more about the English landscape. I would recommend this book to those who want to hear more about the English terrain, people who love travel books, “ramblers” and anyone who wonders what and where the wild places are.

What is your favorite travel book? Do you like books where people travel to exotic lands or explore their own back yard?

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