GERAINT'S STAY AT LOWER FARM DAGNALL HERTFORDSHIRE PART 3
Joan How's visit Part 3
Geraint (like George Orwell living and gardening in Wallington, Hertfordshire) enjoyed growing his own vegetables, and Lower Farm provided him with a garden. Sam Adams writes: ‘’In Dagnall he had a large garden that he cultivated conscientiously, taking pride in his work with the earth and gaining solace there from the new stresses of uncertainty. He usually wrote from about 10 in the morning until lunch. His wife returned from from her day at the office, they would have tea together and then go to the local inn, or perhaps to one in the next village, but he would be back at his desk at about 8.pm and often carried on writing into the small hours.'' Another endorsement of Geraint's enthusiasm for gardening and hunting is to be found in a letter written by Rhoda Goodwin to Sam Adams. It is dated 10th September 1973, and reference is made to Lower Farm. ‘’He took his advice from local countrymen and also bought many gardening books. He did all the work himself and acquired an interest in growing food, the close to earth philosophy which he carried into his writings. He would shoot a couple of rabbits in one of the surrounding fields, bring into the house from the garden potatoes and other vegetables and fruit grown by himself. He made his own beer and country wines, bargaining with the farmer's son on whose land our house stood, for loads of manure in exchange for elderberry wine. Nothing gave him more pleasure than to sit down to a meal and to be able to say he had produced all that was eaten.''
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