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We used the Covid lockdown as a good time to start renovation and repair work to the building caused by floods of 2020. Unfortunately, that work is taking longer than anticipated and therefore We are still closed to the public until further notice. We are happy to say we are still operating online as per usual. Royal Mail is collecting our post the next working day after your order is processed. ParcelForce shipments are arriving outside of Europe albeit with a small delay due to Covid 19.Special Offer
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A Day in the Life of a Stella & Rose’s Books Partner
What, you may wonder, do you do all day???
Quite a lot as it happens!
Firstly, most importantly, I walk my dog on the way to work. Onyx is my Hearing Dog, as mentioned in previous articles, and requires her daily constitutional come rain or shine. Sometimes I arrive at the office in a bedraggled state and Onyx in an even worse state if the weather has not been kind! Fortunately, I am out of the public eye (most of the time!)...
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Cassell’s Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe
Cassell’s Wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe Illustrated by Marjorie Blamey
“I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:There sleeps Titania sometime of the night,Lull’d in these flowers with dances and delight;And there the snake throws her enamell’d skin,Weed wide enough to wrap a fairy in:………..”
This passage from Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream evokes the magic that we feel when we see wild flowers growing and...