In any language10 March 2021: I've been an avid reader, I confess, of the new anthology of my (Trad's) own words to be published as Sitting in the Shade on April Fool's Day. I happened to open it at the entry for our daughter Lucy's wedding in June 2010, which I wrotein a state of high excitement - and largely in Latin. It was an early summer day when the garden was almost over-performing. I had to list all the flowers, and immediately found myself knee-deep in Latin names. It makes for a page so peppered with italics (the correct procedure for botanical Latin) that I was going to leave it out, thinking it would put bookshop browsers off buying. 'No', said my sagacious editor, 'keep it in; it's a lovely wedding celebration'.
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