true colours

'There's something much kinder about a house which has been lived in for generations than a brand new one...old glass still diffuses the daylight on the latest hats as softly as it did on the rugs of the 18th century.'

'What remains green is more deeply, richly green than it was before.'

--J.B.

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Starter for ten: Berger, Barnes, Burnside or Betjeman? 

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