What we can hear in the silence
Have you noticed how silent the world has gone? The large metropolis of London, for instance, usually has a 24-hour roar over it that has...
Dressing up
This little boy piper is spreading the good news: as a result of last week's appeal to buy while I would donate 10% of sales to my local...
There is always more to give
Happy Easter! This feels like a strange thing to say in the middle of a global emergency, but the more we realise the fragility of life,...
La Vie en Rose
UPDATE - Thanks to the tireless research of Angela Grant I was made aware that, although right on the cusp of the changeover from...
Thumb and Finger
I have been writing a few times lately about the interesting East-West mix of cultures in porcelain (see the links below). Right now we...
Beauty in extraordinary times
Now more than ever do we need beauty in our lives! These are extraordinary times and what makes it more unprecedented is that the whole...
Samuel's beasties
In my previous career I had the pleasure to work for a school that was located at St Donat's, one of Britains' best medieval castles in...
Our little winged friends
Putti, also called cherubs or cupids or little angels, are a very popular Western design feature and you can often see putti in the...
Home of the hog
Some pigs get lucky as to where they live, such as the boar that got to be on the crest of Haddon Hall, the most beautiful and best...
An Ode to Fruit
While the world has been fighting a bug, I am fighting off my own passing cold with lots and lots of fruit. Which is a nice coincidence...
