Sephine<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have always had had happy memories of the hill at Lardon Chase <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe and eye used to visit this wonderful place during the warmer months <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And quite occasionally on snowy winter days and risk our lives tobogganing <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the summer we would often picnic (I was often topless) and generally enjoy our innocence <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Joe would paint (a seldom pastime) and read poetry to me (some of it his own) <\/p>\n\n\n\n
My favourite poem (not one of his) was written by Joseph Ashby-Sterry in the nineteenth century<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In my belief it sums the place up<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do visit when the sun is high <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are plenty of butterflies there to interest ewe including the rare Adonis Blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have also spotted the Chalkhill Blue and Marbled White <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chat Soon <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Josie x<\/p>\n\n\n\n
POEM<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when you’re here, I\u2019m told that you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Should mount the hill and see the view;
And gaze and wonder, if you’d do
Its merits most completely;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The air is clear, the day is fine,
The prospect is, I know, divine \u2013
But most distinctly I decline
To climb the hill at Streatley<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But from the Hill, I understand
You gaze across rich pasture-land;
And fancy you see Oxford and
P’r’aps Wallingford and Wheatley:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon the winding Thames you gaze,
And, though the view\u2019s beyond all praise,
I’d rather much sit here and laze<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Than scale the Hill at Streatley!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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