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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">“<SPAN
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why was I bored? Partly because of the dominance of the letter 'I' and the
aridity, which, like the giant beech tree, it casts within its shade.
Nothing will grow there.”</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff">(“A Room of One’s
Own”)</FONT></DIV>
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color=#002419>Beech woodland is shady and characterised by a dense carpet of
fallen leaves and mast husks which prevent most woodland plants from
growing. Only specialist shade-tolerant plants can survive beneath a beech
canopy.”</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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href="https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/common-beech/">https://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/trees-woods-and-wildlife/british-trees/a-z-of-british-trees/common-beech/</A></DIV>
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<DIV>Stuart</DIV>
<DIV>(Day 199)</DIV>
<DIV>“She had observed that if you are poor the way to remain poor is to work
hard and efficiently at some essential but unpleasantly useful task, such as
washing dirty clothes or cleaning house at one shilling an hour. It was
just like the War, where a man got a shilling a day and discomfort for fighting
in the front line, and two pounds a day plus field and fuel allowances for
remembering the General liked Oxford marmalade for breakfast.”</DIV>
<DIV>ALDINGTON, Richard, "The Colonel's Daughter", The Hogarth Press, 1986
(1931), p. 191</DIV>
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