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Ep 6: June. Now a teacher, Edith takes her pupils on a nature ramble to Yarningdale Common with her thoughts preoccupied by her upcoming art exhibition. But it proves a tumultuous month for Edith, as Kenneth confesses to her that his wife has left him before tragedy devastates the family and leaves Edith bereft. Little does she realize how the course of her life is soon to change when at the art exhibition she is introduced to a young man by the name of Ernest Smith...
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00:00Gowan Bank, Olten, Warwickshire.
00:18Nature Notes for 1906.
00:21By Edith B.
00:30Holden.
00:46To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell,
00:50To slowly trace the forest's shady sea,
00:53Where things that own not man's dominion dwell,
00:56And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been,
00:59To climb the trackless mountain all unseen,
01:02With the wild flock that never need a fold,
01:05Alone on steeps and foaming falls to me.
01:09This is not solitude,
01:11Tis but to hold converse with nature's charms,
01:14And view her stores unrolled.
01:17To be continued...
01:20To be continued...
01:22To be continued...
01:23To be continued...
01:24In the old Latin calendar, June was the fourth month.
01:40Ovid states that this month received its name in honour of Juno.
01:56Probably, however, it has an agricultural reference,
01:59And denoted the month in which crops grow to ripeness.
02:03To be continued...
02:05To be continued...
02:06To be continued...
02:07Edith?
02:08Edith?
02:09Edith?
02:10Edith?
02:11Edith?
02:12Good news.
02:13Do you know who's coming to school this term?
02:18Who?
02:19Lanteri.
02:20He's coming to give a lecture.
02:22How very kind of him.
02:25And I suppose that now you're on the staff of the art school you've invited him to the exhibition.
02:41Yes I let him know of it.
02:43Why not?
02:44He was coming to the school anyway.
02:46You were always a favorite pupil.
02:48Perhaps he can do something to help you.
02:50Won't you come?
02:52Dear Violet.
02:54I know you all worry about me.
02:57But I can't imagine anything changing my life now.
03:02I'm quite content.
03:05Really.
03:07Yeah baby!
03:20June 1st.
03:21North-West wind.
03:23Heavy thunderstorm morning and afternoon.
03:37June 3rd, bright and sunny, the first summer's day we have had.
03:56Many of the meadows are golden with buttercups,
04:00and some of the fields are showing quite red where the sorrel is coming into flower.
04:07There's no need to run.
04:16Blake, Irene.
04:17Yes, Miss Holden.
04:17Have you got everything?
04:18Yes, Miss Holden.
04:29June 6th, another glorious June day.
04:32Oh, don't you see me?
04:35Drove with a large party to Yarning Gale Common through Knoll, Battersley, Clinton, Roxhall and Shrewley.
04:41Come on!
04:43I'm coming.
04:52Hi, Miss Holden.
04:53I'm coming.
04:53Yes.
04:54Yes, it is.
04:55Bye.
04:56Bye-bye.
04:57Come on, Irene.
04:58Yes, yes, that's fine.
05:15Come on, Irene.
05:17Here we go.
05:19Oh!
05:21Pine trees.
05:22The common was covered with short grass and firs bushes
05:37and smelled deliciously of thyme.
05:42There were any number of little flowers growing on the turf.
05:46Quantities of purple and red milkwort,
05:49tormentill, meadow lousewort, heathbed straw
05:52and two species of vetch and two of speedwhirl.
06:00Oh, they're lovely. Let's see.
06:04We have clover and cow parsley.
06:07Miss Holden, Miss Holden, I found you there.
06:10Are there any eggs, Alice?
06:11Yes, three.
06:13Oh, how exciting. Let's go and see.
06:14There were great numbers of birds,
06:17chiefly linets and warblers, flitting about among the firs.
06:22I also noticed a pair of windchats and some titlarks.
06:31Go, what are you doing? Be careful.
06:33We found a thresh's nest.
06:35We can't see them, but we can hear them.
06:37We discovered eight birds' nests in the patches of gorse and bramble.
06:46A yellow hammers, two linlets.
06:49Shh!
06:50Look.
06:51A white throats, a willow warblers, a green finches and two thrushes.
06:56Ah!
06:56Shh!
06:57Shh!
07:04Most of the nests had young ones in,
07:07but the yellow hammers contained three eggs.
07:10There were a good many small heath butterflies flying about the common,
07:21and meadow browns and garden whites were plentiful.
07:26The only other butterfly I saw was the orange tip.
07:31Loves me.
07:32Loves me.
07:33Loves me.
07:35He loves me!
07:36It's becoming quite intolerable.
08:04Now, don't go upsetting yourself about those builders again.
08:07Or your father!
08:29Winnie!
08:31Winnie!
08:32Winnie, someone's been in my room again.
08:35You know I hate it so.
08:36We have to clean and dust.
08:38Nothing of yours has been touched.
08:40But that's not so.
08:41I remember distinctly last night I was choosing what should go into the exhibition.
08:44Well, today some sketch I made weeks ago is lying on top.
08:47Everything's out of order.
08:48Oh, perhaps father went here, though.
08:50Why should father want to go through my sketches?
08:53Darling, Edith, he's very proud of the exhibition you're going to have.
08:57And he gets curious and lonely, too, now.
09:01It was Violet who went through my paintings.
09:02I know it was.
09:03I won't have it!
09:06I shall have a lock made for my door if this keeps on happening.
09:10Oh, Edith.
09:16Edith!
09:16Edith, Edith, Edith, Edith.
09:46I was in the woods.
09:50I heard her voice.
09:52I'm not too late.
09:53No, but she's calling for you.
09:58Thank God.
10:00Mother?
10:03Mother?
10:03Mother?
10:03Mother?
10:16She's still alive.
10:18Holding by a thread.
10:20I'm sorry, my dear.
10:40No.
10:43No, she's not.
10:44I promise you.
10:51She's not.
10:51No.
10:53No.
10:54Oh.
10:55No.
10:56No.
10:56No.
11:02No.
11:04No, no.
11:05No.
11:10No.
11:40Mother.
12:10Mother, where are you?
12:17Everything's packed and ready to go.
12:32Poor Edith.
12:37You'll be happy in the new house.
12:40It's small but it's lovely.
12:42And you won't be far from your old haunts.
12:45I don't think I'll ever really belong in the family with Mother gone.
12:58Father will need you more than ever now.
13:00And Kenneth's devoted to you.
13:04You've found your way Evelyn.
13:07I haven't.
13:11You know, I thought it was terrible of you to give up your painting and marry Frank.
13:17But you've made a new life for yourself.
13:22I'm part of the old life.
13:26Mother's gone.
13:28Mother has too.
13:33I think my heart will always be here.
13:38In the country.
13:44We don't live the privileged life we once did.
13:48But we do have a house large enough for all of us.
13:51And in pleasant surroundings.
13:53We must not deny that right to any of our fellow creatures.
13:57Please, Father, don't excite yourself any more.
13:59I feel that I have spoilt my children.
14:03Birmingham is a thriving city.
14:06Where are people to live if we do not build them houses?
14:09But what about the wild creatures that had their homes there before?
14:12We cannot put animals before people.
14:14Father, you're right.
14:15But the countryside is disappearing.
14:17Violet.
14:18No more, please.
14:27And there's still no letter from Kenneth or his wife.
14:31Very selfish of him.
14:33Will you excuse me, please, Father?
14:35It's been a very long holiday.
14:46June 14th.
14:48Wild Gelder Rose, Wild Angelica, and Elderberry in Blossom.
14:53June 15th.
14:56I was quite surprised to come upon a beautiful bank of purple foxgloves today, fully out.
15:01These are the first I have seen in flower.
15:07The birds still sing morning and evening.
15:09But there is not nearly such a full choir as there was a month ago.
15:15The cares and responsibilities of large families of hungry fledglings
15:19make too many demands on the time and attention of the anxious parents.
15:26It is very pretty to see the housemartins sitting in the roadway collecting mud for their nests.
15:31Their short feathered legs look as if they had little white socks on.
15:35Father?
15:50There's a postcard from Kenneth.
15:52Ah.
15:54He's well.
15:55Does he say when he'll be back?
15:57No.
15:58Father was hoping to see your new child.
16:06And my new child?
16:09No, Father won't see it.
16:10Neither will anyone else here.
16:13She's gone off with it, Edie.
16:16On holiday?
16:17No, that's what I told Winnie.
16:21Well, surely you can guess the truth.
16:23Oh, my dear Kenneth.
16:33You must be in agony.
16:35I didn't think it was possible to feel such pain.
16:39I'm finished, Edie.
16:41You need to get away.
16:43Somewhere beautiful, Scotland perhaps.
16:45No, I thought of somewhere altogether new and exciting.
16:48I thought of Algiers.
16:50Africa.
16:54Aren't you afraid of catching some terrible tropical disease?
16:58I shouldn't care much.
16:59My dear.
17:01But it's so far away.
17:05If you were ill, how would we ever hear of it?
17:09Or help you?
17:13How could Ina be so cruel?
17:15Love is cruel.
17:18You know nothing of that.
17:21Family love can hurt too, you know.
17:35June 23rd. Cycled through with me.
17:38The yellow irises are out in the marsh there now.
17:40And at the edge of the stream I found the large blue water forget-me-nots.
17:46While I was stooping to gather some, a beautiful demoiselle dragonfly came skimming across the water and lighted on a bunch of rushes.
17:55The next moment it was away again.
17:57Edith!
17:58Edith!
17:59What are you doing here?
18:00We're all upstairs with Len Terry!
18:01Edith!
18:02What are you doing here?
18:03We're all upstairs with Len Terry!
18:04What are you doing here?
18:05We're all upstairs with Len Terry!
18:06Mr. Len Terry, how lovely to see you again.
18:07Mr. Len Terry, how lovely to see you again.
18:08Mr. Len Terry, how lovely to see you again.
18:09May I present my assistant, Ernest Smith.
18:24Ernest, this is Miss Edith Holden.
18:27How do you do?
18:28How very finely you paint, Miss Holden.
18:30Please don't flatter.
18:31I always say what I mean.
18:32You can be sure of that.
18:33He is my most exacting critic.
18:37And I must say he speaks no more than the truth now.
18:40This is...
18:41I'm sorry for you.
18:42Good to see you again.
18:43It's a wonderful book.
18:44Mr. Len Terry, how lovely to see you again.
18:46May I present my assistant, Ernest Smith.
18:48Ernest, this is Miss Edith Holden.
18:50How do you do?
18:51Very finely you paint, Miss Holden.
18:52Please, don't flatter.
18:53This is Raymond Splendid.
18:56Oh, really?
18:58Uh, mes félicitations.
19:01À bientôt.
19:02Violet, I don't quite understand.
19:07If these gentlemen are telling the truth, please assure me that it has nothing to do with me, at least,
19:13that Edith remains at home.
19:15Of course not, Father.
19:19Evelyn's the best of us, but she gave it up when she got married.
19:23I can't imagine that of you.
19:25You are obviously devoted to your work.
19:28I love good craftsmanship.
19:31I suppose because in my work I must have a craftsman's skills to put the sculptor's ideas into effect.
19:37Your work is beautifully crafted, but it's also original.
19:42I feel it lacks strength.
19:44No, its strength is its gentleness.
19:46You love the world about you.
19:48Not all the world.
19:50Not the hideous cities creeping everywhere.
19:52Cities can be beautiful, too.
19:55One day you must let me show you London.
19:57And in return I shall show you the beauties of the countryside.
20:00Will you?
20:01When?
20:02I go back to London with Lanteri in two days.
20:06Are you free tomorrow?
20:08Please.
20:09Why will your mind forever go to meads in sunny Greece?
20:22Our songbirds have as fine a flow, our sheep as fair a fleece.
20:27Among our hills the honeybee and in the leaning pear.
20:32I tell you there is Arkady in leafy Warwickshire.
20:37Oh, listen.
20:38It's a cuckoo.
20:39It's Midsummer's Day, so he's changed his tune.
20:40What a lot you know.
20:41Oh, some of it's nonsense.
20:43You know, they say that if you run and count the cuckoo's cries until you're out of earshot,
20:46you'll add as many years to your life as you can count.
20:47All right, then.
20:48Give me your hand.
20:49I tell you there is Arkady in leafy Warwickshire.
20:50I tell you there is Arkady in leafy Warwickshire.
20:53Oh, listen.
20:54There's a cuckoo.
20:55It's Midsummer's Day, so he's changed his tune.
20:56What a lot you know.
20:57Oh, some of it's nonsense.
20:58You know, they say that if you run and count the cuckoo's cries until you're out of earshot,
21:11you'll add as many years to your life as you can count.
21:14All right, then.
21:15Give me your hand.
21:16And we'll run together.
21:26Oh.
21:27Oh.
21:28How many?
21:29I forgot to count.
21:30Oh.
21:31You talk.
21:32I'm out of breath.
21:33Oh.
21:34Oh.
21:35Oh.
21:36Oh.
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22:20Oh.
22:21Oh.
22:22Oh.
22:24What do you make of him?
22:35June...
22:3924th.
22:43Midsummer day.
22:47The cuckoo is beginning to change his tune.
22:50A little later he will be saying,
22:52Cuck-cuckoo.
22:55There are a good many rhymes about the cuckoo.
23:00In April, cuckoo sings his lay.
23:08In May, I sing all day.
23:14In June, I change my tune.
23:18In July, away I fly.
23:27June 25th.
23:28Went for a long country walk through Catherine de Barnes, Hampton in Arden, Bickenhill and Elmden.
23:34Everywhere the lanes were fragrant with wild roses and honeysuckle, and the breeze came to us over the hedges laden with the perfume of the clover fields and grass meadows.
23:47The grasses of all kinds were lovely all along the wayside.
23:55I found the meadow sweetened bloom in many places.
24:01Gathered self-heal and great burnet among the meadow grass.
24:06And dogwood and the white waxen blossoms of the trailing rose from the hedges.
24:13We picnicked under a hedge with pink and white clover bloom and tall grasses nodding round our heads, while a pair of excited robins chattered and fluttered in the bushes round us, evidently very curious as to what we were about down in their field corner.
24:41Saw a great number of beautiful little dragonflies, pale blue with black markings at a wayside pond.
24:54And yellow water lilies on Elmden Park pool.
24:58June has been a very hot month with a large percentage of sunshine.
25:187 to 12 or around the sun.
25:20ever seen, the flowers in the forest.
25:23Yet golden sunshine.
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