Flowers for Autumn
It is a wonderful autumnal day today - a bit grey, but the trees are starting to turn colour and the garden is a lovely mess of leaves,...
Meanwhile in Worcester...
Happy Autumn! (or, if you are down under, happy Spring!) I hope everyone has had a beautiful summer in spite of the weather and the many...
Derby has its day
In my monthly column in Homes & Antiques, the last two months I wrote about the emerging porcelain factories in Chelsea and Bow (both in...
Ring the bells
When we think about times past, we often think people didn't have much colour - perhaps because pictures are black and white, and many...
Tea with Marie Antoinette
It is summer here and we are finally having some freedom again, so I am enjoying the rare opportunity to go places. I have been visiting...
Inspired by the Muses
When in the late 18th and early 19th Century excavations in Southern Italy, Greece and Turkey started to reveal the long forgotten...
Under the Bells of Bow
Last month I wrote in Homes & Antiques about the Chelsea factory, and this month I am moving across London to Bow, its sister factory...
Acanthus
You had to go without a blog post last week as I was on holiday in Cornwall... but while there I came across something interesting. You...
Toulouse
This last month has been full of great sporting tournaments: the European football title, the Wimbledon tennis tournament, and of course...
Made in Chelsea
It is that time of the month; you can now read my latest column in Homes & Antiques, called "Made in Chelsea". This month I am writing...
