~On Spring~

I love good books and The Wind and the Willows is one of the best- for all ages, at any time.
I least, that is what I think.
And btw , Mole has always been my very favorite character, so cute. I wish that I had a friend like him...
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"The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring- cleaning his little home.


First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said `Bother!' and `O blow!' and also `Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.
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Something up above was calling him imperiously, and he made for the steep little tunnel which answered in his case to the gravelled carriage-drive owned by animals whose residences are nearer to the sun and air.

So he scraped and scratched and scrabbled and scrooged and then he scrooged again and scrabbled and scratched and scraped, working busily with his little paws and muttering to himself, `Up we go! Up we go!' till at last, pop! his snout came out into the sunlight, and he found himself rolling in the warm grass of a great meadow."
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The Wind in the Willows.

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  1. dear Rosie, what a great blog! you are a great writer! I love the way you write about your favoriet things and about your family. I like reading and sewing but you are verry good in sewing. Nice picture's you make.Your blog make me smile. If you send a email to this adress arjan.eveline@gmail.com
    I can send you piture from myself and family. I whis you and your family lots of Joy and Blessings.

    Greatings Eveline.

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