JULY - "Once there was a wild rose gay..."
Once there was a wild rose gay, On the moorland growing. But a careless boy at play Chanced to see the tempting spray Which the wind was blowing. Goethe Epworth County Primary School late 19th century Florence Mabel Emerson, my grandmother, Epworth school photo about 1922 Susan Temperton (Crow), Epworth school photo about 1963 School’s Out! In Scotland we are over half way through our summer holiday and in many parts of England the holidays have just begun. I liked school and it felt a bit sad to say goodbye to everyone until September. Before school closed, we took our lessons out of doors on dry and warm summer days. I loved the school garden but I really couldn’t concentrate on anything there - except the scent of the roses, the flitting of the insects and the songs of the birds. Many years on from that and over five hundred miles away, I still suffer from the same thing! If I try to read or write out of doors, I just can’t concentrate. There is too much going on around me. And they...
