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"...Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which takes advantage of the fact that many trees make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, young tree stems are repeatedly cut down to near ground level. In subsequent growth years, many new shoots will emerge, and, after a number of years the coppiced tree, or stool, is ready to be harvested, and the cycle begins again..."
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For once, Lord Peter Wimsey is at a loss. What on earth can a man buy his wife for Christmas that costs under a guinea? Harriet also has a one guinea budget for Peter's present, but she has had the good sense to ask for assistance from Miss Climpson. (And sometimes the best presents are the ones you make yourself.)
Last bookmarked by gelasticjew
22 Dec 2011
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Lord Peter Wimsey and his wife Harriet have a guinea limit on their gifts this year
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Talboys. Set late in World War II following Peter's death. Consistent with Sayers canon up to the end of the Wimsey Papers but going AU at some point after 1940. There is sex happening but no explicit revelations of the non-marriage bed. Warning for Helen.
Credit for the "He's called Mervyn" line goes to Nineveh_uk, as does the subtitle "Helen made us do it".
Last bookmarked by marysutherland
6 Dec 2011
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Has she always looked at him like that? Is he seeing things differently now, through Radiance's eyes? "It's all right," she says. "It's almost dawn."
Last bookmarked by Monochromatic_Mime
28 Apr 2011
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"I must have a streak of my father in me. He was one of the old school -- you either faced a fence of your own accord or were walloped over and non nonsense. It worked -- after a fashion. One learnt to pretend one wasn't a coward, and take out the change in bad dreams."
"You certainly don't show any signs of it."
"One of these days you'll find me out, I expect."
-- Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers
Last bookmarked by mswyrr
25 Dec 2010
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Five Wimseyverse birthdays.
Last bookmarked by Wren Truesong (waywren)
16 Nov 2010
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Rec 10
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A few moments of domesticity.
Last bookmarked by Elizabeth Perry (watersword)
14 Mar 2010
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"Have you sussed yet what they've stolen this time?"
Honoria considered the clues – smudged palm prints on doors, dusty tracks through the library, blotter paper in the wastebasket. "Yes, my dear," she replied. "You aren't the only detective in the family."
I love Honoria, and Peter is SUCH an awesome, thoughtful father, and the kids are a delight and a half.
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Rec 33
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A selection of letters and diaries on the eve of the Armistice.
Last bookmarked by hangingfire
27 Dec 2009
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The Wimsey family at the end of the Great War, captured through letters and the diary of the inimitable Dowager Duchess of Denver. All the characterisations are absolutely spot-on, and it's both funny and moving.