Jane at Levant: ABC Wednesday F is for ......

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

ABC Wednesday F is for ......

ABC Wednesday and F is For Farm - Full title Acton Scott Working Farm Museum - set in the heart of Shropshire. A step back in time - like a breath of Fresh air.

Tamworth piglets - in their old Fashioned sty - snuffled away in a careFree way

Ducks were for ever busy - in their duckpond - oblivious to all - swimming round and round - continually squabbling in a Friendly way.taking time out for a well earned rest.

A visit last week proved to be Fun with the Family in tow.

F is For Flower - so lets look at the Foxglove - or Digitalis - which in Latin means finger - which according to Daphne Barraclough in A Flower Lovers Miscellany - led to the name of fairies gloves.

The Foxglove is definitely a Free spirit and can be Found on both sides of the Fence- wild or cultivated - popping up in the most unexpected places - reputed to have Fairy and mystical connections and it will definitely deter the rabbit population if set amongst the veggies- and if you are interested in herbal remedies - the Foxglove is a well known source of medicine for Heart complaints.

Finally for a Finale - F is For Friends and For a Fabulous time- feasting on Favourite Foods and listening to Fantastic music From a Frenzied band - until the sun had set over the Shropshire Hills

10 comments:

Jane and Chris23 August 2011 at 06:02
Love the animal pics...we don't get foxgloves here....I guess our winters are too harsh.
Jane x
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MaR23 August 2011 at 09:44
Fantastic choices for F, love the ducks and the flower.
f is for...
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Molly23 August 2011 at 09:57
Jane you've taken some brilliant pictures again. We went to Acton Scott a few years ago when they were holding a 'blacksmith jamboree' there. It's an amazing place - would love to go again
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Roger Owen Green23 August 2011 at 10:32
Yow, some wicked FUZZ Bass from the band! But nice flora.
ROG, ABC Wednesday team
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EG CameraGirl23 August 2011 at 14:02
Working farm museums are such fun! You really can step back in time...for a little while.
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Chubskulit Rose23 August 2011 at 17:06
I love the color of the pigs!

First Grade's Fees is what I have for ABC this week.
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Kathy23 August 2011 at 17:52
This certainly meets my expectations of what an English farm would look like!
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photowannabe23 August 2011 at 20:54
I do love your choice of F words, especially the little piglets on the museum farm.
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Gattina24 August 2011 at 01:20
What a nice choice for f ! you have the first farm I visit !
Gattina
ABC Team
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Kim, USA24 August 2011 at 08:21
Animals are fun to watch and these wild flowers are beautiful!

ABC Wed
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FAIRY -LED

The fairy people flouted me,
Mocked me ,shouted me
They chased me down the dreamy hill and beat me with a wand
Within the wood they found me ,put spells on me and bound me
And left me at the edge of day in John the miller's pond
Beneath the eerie starlight;
Their hair shone curd -white
Their bodies were all twisted like a lichened apple tree
Feather -light and swift they moved,
And never one they loved,
For all were full of dreams and dark designs on me.

With noise of leafy singing
And white wands swinging
They marched away amid the grass that swayed to let them through.
Between the the yellow tansies
Their eyes,like purple pansies,
Peered back on me before they passed all trackless in the dew.

Mary Webb - from the Spring of Joy

Three softly curved white sepals veined with light,

Three green-lined petals,guarding frugal gold,

And all so strong to fold or to unfold!

Snow thunders from the bending pines.How slight

This frail,sheathed stem! Yet all unbent it springs,

So swift in stoopings and recoverings.

In the pale sunshine,with frail wings unfurled,

Comes to the bending snowdrop the first bee.

She gives her winter honey prudently;

And faint with travel in a bitter world,

The bee makes music, tentative and low,

And spring awakes and laughs across the snow.

Mary Webb

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