This month's issue of Wye Valley Life (happy first birthday to them) has a feature on Tinto House in Hay, which has been beautifully done up by the lady who owns Sage Femme, just across the road from there. They also mention the rather wonderful garden at the back.
"Tim, the man who tends it all so carefully for the couple, whom they inherited with the house, also happens to be a poet and one of the best-read gardeners you'll ever come across; not many will have read James Joyce's Ulysses three times!"
"Actually," he said, when I met him, "I've only read Ulysses once, but I started it several times. It's like cracking a code, and once you've got it, it's actually very funny."
One of Tim's poems is somewhere on this blog - back, I think, around last September. And he plays guitar at open mic nights.
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It was great to see John and Karen's house featured right in the front of September's issue of Wye Valley Life, including a mention of Tim the gardener, although I have to say the article was incredibly badly written with appalling grammar and badly-constructed sentences.
Talking of bad grammar, the front cover has a sub-heading about a feature on Ledbury, written by their town crier which is entitled 'Oh Yea Oh Yea for Ledbury'. Every schoolboy (and fule) doth know that it should read 'Oyez, Oyez, Oyez for Ledbury' – that's three cries of 'oyez' and 'oyez' spelled correctly.
Shame on you, Wye Valley Life. Do you not have a dictionary in your office?
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