Merry Hall (Beverley Nichols Trilogy)

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I can’t understand why he isn’t more well-known, and I see he also wrote some mystery books which I really must read. You have encouraged me to take old Beverley down from the shelf (where I have several of his books), dust him off , and enjoy Merry Hall all over again! As we all know, the only way to plant daffodils is to pile them on to a tray, and then to run out into the orchard and hurl the tray into the air, planting them exactly where they fall. Thanks for the tip about the little arrows – being a techno-idiot I just thought that was a normal WordPress thing, as it appears on all the blogs I look at. Nichols is very much of his time, he made me laugh out loud several times, but he is quite proactive too I think.

Merry Hall (1951) and its sequels Laughter on the Stairs (1953) and Sunlight on the Lawn (1956) document Nichols's travails in renovating a Georgian mansion and its gardens soon after the war. As it is with comfort, so it is with taste; to linger in the Tudors is merely a sign of aesthetic adolescence; one must more on the eighteenth century, and if one has any sense, stay there.Boards have light edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and spine is presentable with minimal crushing and tanning.

Of building a reflecting pool: "It is the sort of thing which the Daily Herald will tell you can be dug over the weekend by a not very bright child with a not very sharp spade. I agree that this doesn’t matter – his lack of grubby fingernails doesn’t stop the books from being such fun! As an enthusiastic Downton Abbey fan and all things English, I'm not surprised I found Merry Hall humorous and entertaining. That sounds a good description of the prose in which many of the passages in this book will doubtless be written. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.In case you did not know it, snowdrops 'lift' best when they are in full flower, providing that you dig them up in a solid chunk of soil. Dust jacket a little sunned and edgeworn, spine very sunned with slight loss to top and small chips to foot. And there is a huge amount of green space on the doorstep: Ashtead Common and Epsom Common (which run into each other) are on the edge of town, while Epsom Racecourse is just a few minutes away.