Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
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Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly:
Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.
– from Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind (in As You Like It, Act II Scene VII) by William Shakespeare
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Ashridge Estate, Hertfordshire, January 2021
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Copyright Debbie Smyth, 15 July 2021
Posted as part of Becky’s TreeSquare
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Love the frosted edges. “Have a holly jolly Christmas”…in six months!! Near where my s-i-l lives in France, there are some groups of gigantic holly bushes/trees. They must have been spectacular when the berries arrived! Unfortunately, I wasn’t there to see.
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I. An see you need a winter trip to France, Janet
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🙂 Sounds like a plan to me.
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what wonderful shots – ‘As yo Like It’ is one of his plays that I seem to remember one or two lines from but have no recollection of seeing the whole play itself.
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I think we are born with a certain amount of Shakespeare embedded – a kind of literary instinct.
I don’t think I’ve actually seen it either
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Blimey, winters turned up early!
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I sometimes think it never left 😉
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Well, yes
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