![]() ![]() ![]() You may say ‘oh yes, I love a garden.’ But what do you really mean by that? You mean that you like to wander through rows of hollyhocks, swathed in tulle. I began to take a joy in the work for its own sake. Until you actually own a garden, you cannot know this joy. With Arthur gone “the work of salvage began… and the extraordinary thing about it was that gradually my impatient desire for immediate results, which is the besetting sin of all beginners, died down. Nichols’ manservant did not have the same qualms, and Arthur left the next day. The result is that Arthur is summarily sacked, although not by Nicholas who “was sick and disheartened”, but by his manservant who he sent down with a pile of cash and instructions not to come back until Arthur had been evicted. Gardening at Thatch Cottage which he bought in 1928 and put up for sale in 1937 - in the village of Glatton, which he called Allways in “Down the Garden Path.” ![]()
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