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12th August 2024

This week on the Post we have the joys of August and high summer. Stella Martin Currey dedicated One Woman's Year to her late friend, Tirzah Garwood; the two were similarly curious, eclectic, and inspired by family and domestic life. In the August chapter, she writes amusingly about 'taking the sand out of sandwiches' during beach picnics. This is Picnic on the Sands (1938, Beverley Art Gallery) by Evelyn M. Saner. 

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