A Lovely book of memoirs  by Alison Uttley, an English writer of over 100 books. She is best known for a children's series about Little Grey Rabbit and Sam Pig. She is also remembered for a pioneering time slip novel for children, A Traveller in Time, about the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots
 
"When shepherds pipe on oaten straws, And merry larks are plowmen's clocks"
Contents:
I. Kitchens --
II. Fires --
III. Summer Holidays --
IV. Travelling --
V. Boggarts and sprites --
VI. Evocation of Christmas --
VII. The herb garden --
VIII. Weather report --
IX. Autumn --
X. Choosing a house --
XI. An old account book --
XII. Flowers in Buckinghamshire