Eye - 31 August 2012

From Flower Patch tales to feathery accounts

by Eye 31st August 2012

Flower patch tales

Following their time at The Boy’s Own Paper and The Girl’s Own Paper respectively (24 August), Eb and Flo’s tale continued at ‘The Flower Patch’, a cottage in the Wye Valley.

Here Flora penned ‘The Flower Patch’ novels. Jill Allum says: ‘Although novels, these were very descriptive of her lovely sloping wild flower garden. I took my bike on the train from Colchester, getting off at Tintern, and cycled to Brockweir and stayed with Flora’s great niece… Flora wrote, “Be encouraged in the beauty of the world of nature about you, see something of the handiwork of God.”’