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• What have you in bloom?
• Monday reading notes: only all the poems
• Last week’s reading, and assorted other things
• Okay, yeah, I’ve been there.
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• High Style
• Rhymes with ‘how’
• Pressing Questions
• “A minnow! A minnow! I’ve got him by the nose!”
• More MOOCs to explore
• Painted with woad, and howling
• It’s our first rainy Friday in the longest time
• Reading the 20th Century
• Bookletter time
• “The exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting…is denied to me.”
• “Only.”
• “What a thing it is to have an unruly family!”
• What I read today: the weekend and Monday
• Downton Abbey Season 4, Episode 8: The London Season
• Quandary
• What I read today: Friday
• What I read today: Thursday
• What I read today: Wednesday
• What I read today: Tuesday

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Bloom diary:

1 Mar—Between rains, a sky gray and bright. Things I missed yesterday: African daisies and ice plant, quite thick with flowers. Blue plumbago and salvia just beginning. Two stars of jasmine among the pink buds. Bees busy at the tree mallow and the lavender.

28 Feb—Second day of steady rain, the first good soaking we've had in months. Already things are greening up. In bloom: nasturtiums, sweet alyssum, freesia (yellow and red), cape honeysuckle, the citrus trees, pink geraniums, lavender. Tulips and hyacinths just coming up. Daffodils and paperwhites fading. Winter lettuce has bolted.