“And what does January hold? Clean account books. Bare diaries. Three hundred and sixty-five new days, neatly parcelled into weeks, months, seasons. A chunk of time, of life … those few first notes like an orchestra tuning up before the play begins.”

-Phyllis Nicholson (‘Country Bouquet‘ 1947)

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