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Simon Dale’s new low-impact strawbale home in Lammas Ecovillage. Still only half-finished, but it already looks beautiful! Read more here.

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Happy Birthday Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins, better known as Anthony Hope! (9 February 1863 – 8 July 1933)

English novelist and playwright. He was a prolific writer, especially of adventure novels but he is remembered predominantly for only two books: The Prisoner of Zenda (1894) and its sequel Rupert of Hentzau (1898). These works, "minor classics" of English literature, are set in the contemporaneous fictional country of Ruritania and spawned the genre known as Ruritanian romance. Zenda has inspired many adaptations, most notably the 1937 Hollywood movie of the same name. (Wikipedia)

From our stacks: (1) Illustration “It was always you, never the king!” by Charles Dana Gibson and (2) cover detail from The Prisoner of Zenda: Being the History of Three Months in the Life of an English Gentleman By Anthony Hope With five full-page Illustrations by Charles Dana Gibson And a view and plan of the castle of Zenda By Howard Ince. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1898. (3) Illustration “Do you remember?” by W. St. John Harper and (4) cover from Simon Dale By Anthony Hope. Illustrated by W. St. John Harper. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1897.

THE HOBBIT HOUSE | simon dale / hat tip to llyod khan

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Only three generations ago most of us had ancestors living in the countryside and were skilled in woodwork, plants, craft, weaving and so on. Like many people, we wished to reclaim these ways and return to having a direct relationship to the land, do things for ourselves, enjoy a high standard of living and have fun. Committing ourselves to this land and simple living is our way of taking responsibility for our impact on the world as best we can. Every day we learn more about this place and can integrate our needs with the landscape we are in. Time to observe cycles and seasons is giving the opportunity to become neo-indigenous; architects of our own lives and genuine stewards of the land.