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Three diaries record drystone activities devised for children from three to sixteen, in Cyprus and in Sardinia. The first follows nursery children collaging a terraced olive grove and handling stones in their own yard. The second is a school project in which teenagers built and painted bird boxes for a burnt landscape, and carried it on when the adults could not. The third is a morning in a Sardinian orchard, where children built stone basins around thirsty vines.
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