Alice took this picture of my tree. It grows in the park that stretches the length of St Leonards/Hastings where we live – a very beautiful park with everything from grassy spaces for family picnics to formal rose gardens to rare trees to wild spaces and a ghyll.
Every year I look for my tree blooming. It is a huge magnolia. This week, as you can see in the photo, it is breath-takingly beautiful.
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I loved this hat but found it impractical – too precarious, even with pins when my hair was long. I have another big shady sunhat that has a big crown, so I kept that and sent this (along with a couple of other unusual hats) to a friend who is often engaged on theatre projects.