The New Forest

"Trees're always a relief after people."

(David Mitchell)

"How humans love to plunder the forest, like spoiled children with their parents ATM card and no concept of moderation."

(Paul Rosolie)

Allotments

"Gardening adds years to your life and life to your years."

(Unknown)

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they will never sit in."

(Greek Proverb)

Bubble Boy

"There are no bad drawings. Drawings are experiences. The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get."

(Danny Gregory)

"To spend time observing,without drawing, thinking, without drawing, or feeling, without drawing, is the misfortune of the non-artist."

(Nick Meglin)

Merry Christmas

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Twickenham

"I bless heaven, morning, noon, and night that I am in my peaceful house in old Twick."

(Louis Philippe. Duc d'Orleans)

"Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad ?"

(Dodie Smith)

Norfolk

"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow."

(Grant Wood)

"I could dance with you till the cows come home. Better still, I'll dance with the cows and you come home."

(Groucho Marx)

Holkham

"Some counties vaunt themselves in pies and some in meats excel;

For turnips of enormous size fair Norfolk bares the belle."

(Old Rhyme)

"If this were the time or the place to uphold a paradox, I am half inclined to state that Norfolk is one of the most beautiful of counties."

(Virginia Woolf)

Felbrigg

"The Norfolk Landscape sends a shiver through my soul."

(Raffaella Barker)

"You can always tell a Norfolk man, but you can't tell him very much."

(Sidney Grapes)