Cragside House In The Snow birch Rather than being a distant

Rather than being a distant viewer

rather than a flat anonymous figure overlooked by the history books

I can never resist painting the lush carpet of vibrant bluebells

Because while people are watching the puffins

Cragside House In The Snow birch Rather than being a distantCragside House In The Snow Print 0104 I can still remember the very first time I saw Cragside House as a small child on a school trip. We'd walked for what seemed like hours through a "massive shrubbery" it seemed to me and I was puzzled as to why we'd been dragged there. Then suddenly we were on the iron bridge, gazing upwards at the house with its towers and glinting windows like a fairytale castle, and it all made sense. Whenever I'm fortunate