(2007)  
 
p79. (post 1925). After an extended road trip exploring gardens thoughout the corners of England with Johnny Johnston and Reginald Cooper, and after spending endless days in their gardens at Hidcote.....

p112. Norah, often accompanied by her daughter Nancy, enjoyed a life of simple pleasures at Hidcote. "We have had an extremely enjoyable and cosy uneventful week here, leading the most comfortable existence with dear Johnny....

p196. Norah's grumbling ceased when Johnny Johnston arrived that week from Menton on his way to Hidcote. "He has plans for an expedition with the Warres to Tenerife and he is off in February or March to find all sorts of new plants - he will enrich his garden." ....At Christmas time Nancy Lindsay, returned home from Persia where she had been on a plant-hunting expedition sponsored by the British Museum. Johnny was equally "dying to see her and hear news of the Persian flora!.....She's really a marvel and brought back the most remarkable things and how she got them through the Russian and the German douanes is incomprehensible - and she is most interesting telling us of her work. Kew was thrilled and she spent all Tuesday with them and left them new various rarieties. She says Persia is a treasure house for plants - but the primitive discomforts ghastly. She travelled everywhere quite alone."

p225. In October [1939] Norah and Nancy packed all the china, books and knick-knacks in huge chests in the cellar and 'shut up' Sutton. Unable to afford to keep Sutton heated during the winter months and with little money for necessities, Norah and Nancy set off for Hidcote. Johnny had come back to Hidcote for a brief time and had invited Norah to join him before his return to Menton in November.