Virginia Woolf in Rodmell - 28 September, 1919
from The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, page 302:
We have been planting tiny grains of seed in the front bed, in the pious or religious belief that they will resurrect next spring as Clarkia, Calceolaria, Campanula, Larkspur & Scabious. I shan't recognise them if they do; we are planting at a venture, inspired by a seedsmen's language: how they stand high & bear bright blue petals. Then there's weeding. Very soon, in any occupation, one makes a game of it. I mean (for I'm cold & inept at the moment - church bells ringing, fire just catching, & the great log we sawed about to plunge into fiery caverns) that… more >>
Virginia Woolf, and Anne Olivier Bell (ed.), The diary of Virginia Woolf. Vol.1, 1915-1919, volume 1 (Harmondsworth, 1979), p. 302. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1444392339766 accessed: 11 September, 2024
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Date/Time | 28 September, 1919 |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors |