“But it is in the old story that all the beasts can talk in the night between Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the morning (though there are very few folk that can hear them, or know what it is that they say).When the Cathedral clock struck twelve there was an answer—like an echo of […]
BEATRIX POTTER
CAN SOMEONE LEND ME A RHUBARB LEAF?

Referring to herself in the third person, Beatrix described herself in 1925 as living ‘amongst the mountains and lakes that she has drawn in her picture books…She leads a very busy contented life, living always in the country and managing a large sheep farm on her own land. Her shepherd Tom Storey described her as […]