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...Available with matching napkins. lateafternoon.co.uk The Noodle cushion by Molly Mahon, £150 Bring extra comfort to a bench with this hand block-printed cushion from the designer’s new Bloom collection...
...As a child, Mary Oliver would start out for school every morning but turn into the woods near Maple Heights, Ohio, instead with a knapsack of books for company....
...One is a gold letter M by Ben Day that my husband gave me; another is by Annoushka with an inscription of all my children’s names in their handwriting; and the third is a maple-leaf charm by Annina Vogel...
...But even the all-American, maple syrup-supplying sugar maples here come with a twist. They are Acer saccharum “Monumentale” and, like the ginkgos, are naturally column-shaped....
...After a while of clomping along on Mona, the whitish mare (or “Molly” mule) that I was put on, I began to realise that she was busy feeling out what I wanted her to do....
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