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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20050529
Author:Helen Brown

Horace Walpole once advised that the 'best way to ensure summer in England is to have it framed and glazed in a comfortable room'. But the more optimistic among us have been sprucing up our gardens in anticipation of our few months' unpredictable audience with the Sun God. Three years ago I installed a quaint (if uncomfortable) wrought- iron bench in my urban backyard and on summer afternoons I whip up a jug of homemade lemonade and sit out there pretending to be a refined English lady. It's a precarious fantasy, and this year I've been pondering dragging my patch into the more comfortable ...

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