Earth at Work

A Writer’s Garden

Posted in Garden by Vivienne on September 13, 2009

Beautiful piece about Roald Dahl’s garden at Great Missenden in the Telegraph, which you can find here.

The garden is open today.  I am sorry to have missed it – and not to have told you about it earlier.  Another time.

The only place in the garden where time has stood still is the locked shed where Dahl sat with a writing tray balanced on his knee. There everything – from the fag-ends in the ashtray, to the ball of silver foil formed from KitKat wrappers – remains just as it was when Dahl sat there inventing his fantasies.


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  1. Clare said, on September 15, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    I remember reading about that ball of foil…! Hope you get to see it soon.


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