{"id":30419,"date":"2016-10-18T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-bird-of-beauty-laid-to-rest-in-the-lingering-fragrance-of-summer\/"},"modified":"2016-10-18T11:35:50","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T04:35:50","slug":"a-bird-of-beauty-laid-to-rest-in-the-lingering-fragrance-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/a-bird-of-beauty-laid-to-rest-in-the-lingering-fragrance-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"A bird of beauty laid to rest in the lingering fragrance of summer"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nClaxton, Norfolk I laid my song thrush down in the earth where all those life scenes and memories and scents aroseEven in death it looked perfect, spots on his chest as bold as a summer\u2019s morning. It was a dead song thrush. The tiny yellow tips to the coverts and the faintest crease of like colour at the corners of the beak suggested a bird of the year, inexperienced in the ways of cats or windows. Yet what to do with something so beautiful?First I had work. Our garden is split in three \u2013 vegetables down one side; a middle lawn running all the way to autumn\u2019s only colour, a cyclamen patch in the shadows under the hollies; and on the other side, by the hedge, a meadow area that has been left entirely to steer its own course for the past eight years. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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