A Brit in Tennessee

Tales of a British expat, transplanted into the lush Tennessee countryside. Lover of old, time-worn, and antique. Tea-drinker, flower-grower, animal-nurturer.


Saturday, June 7, 2025

Simpler Times












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“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”

~ Camille Pissarro




"Come along inside ~ We'll see if tea and buns will make the world a better place."

~ Wind in the Willows



"As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings of our common everyday lives for which we should be particularly grateful."

~ Laura Ingalis Wilder

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Sweet friends who lend me their ear


To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

~ T.S. Eliot

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"If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there"

~Lewis Carroll

Thank you for your lovely comments x

Thank you for your lovely comments x

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what we want,
but the realization of how much we already have.



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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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"Be yourself,
everyone else is taken."

~ Oscar Wilde

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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters
compared to what lies within us."

~Walt Emerson




' There is no trouble so great or grave that cannot be much dimished by a cup of tea.'

~Bernard-Paul Heroux

Now winter nights enlarge
This number of their hours;
And clouds their storms discharge
Upon the airy towers.
Let now the chimneys blaze
And cups o'erflow with wine,
Let well-tuned words amaze
With harmony divine...

~Thomas Campion








"Tell you what I like the best --
'Long about knee-deep in June,
'Bout the time strawberries melts
On the vine, -- some afternoon
Like to jes' git out and rest,
And not work at nothin' else!"

~ James Witcomb Riley

Knee Deep in June








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“Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can,
In all the ways you can,
In all the places you can,
At all the times you can,
To all the people you can,
As long as ever you can.”

~ John Wesley





Man's Testament.

Question not, but live and Labour
Till yon goal be won,
Helping every feeble neighbour,
Seeking help from none;
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.

~ Adam Lindsay Gordon.
Courtesy of Kipling


"What a ripping little house this is !
Everything so handy ! "

~ Wind in the Willows.















The Shed..."In the potting shed, our hearts, the pleasures of home, and the glories of the garden merge. Its practical character eases our garden labors. Its romantic nature enriches our lives. Here is peace, and beauty, and a sense of purpose."

~Linda Joan Smith : The Potting Shed








Stories don't always end where
their authors intended.
But there is joy in following them,
wherever they take us.

~Beatrix Potter







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If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England.

~ Rupert Brooke





Scones and Clotted Cream

Scones and Clotted Cream

Afternoon Tea.

Afternoon Tea.


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"There is nothing in the world,
More beautiful than the forest
Clothed to its very hollows in snow.
It is the still ecstasy of nature,
Wherein every spray,
Every blade of grass,
Every spire of reed,
Every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance."
- William Sharp




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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.

~ Rudyard Kipling





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Secret Room

Secret Room

English Bluebells

English Bluebells

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I'm Late, I'm Late for a very important date,

No time to say hello, goodbye, I'm late, I'm late, I'm late ...




"We're all mad here"

~ The Cheshire Cat
from Alice in Wonderland




I rule. No really, I do.

I like pigs
Dogs look up to us
Cats look down on us
Pigs treat us as equals.....

Sir Winston Churchill
living in the Tennessee

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A Brit in Tennessee
A British expat transplanted into the lush Tennessee countryside. Wife, mother, grandma, great-grandma. The other character in this plot, being Tom-Tilly the cat, independent and aloof. I'm a lover of old. Time-worn, antiques, quilts, primitives, heirloom pieces, potting sheds, English literature, poetry, Battenburg lace, blue willow, cottages, white ironstone dishes, English transferware, worn-out picket fences, teapots, old bird houses, moss-covered clay pots, gardening, all creatures great and small. "And they loaded up their trucks and they moved to Tennessee....hills there are, swimming holes, country stars".
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Would you come inside, and sit awhile. I'll make tea.

Would you come inside, and sit awhile. I'll make tea.
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