Once upon a time there was a Christmas bauble that lived upstairs in the attic of a grandma’s old stone cottage. He was a very jolly bauble and spent most of the year in the big box of Christmas decorations with all his friends: the tinsel, the candles, the coloured lights, the other baubles and… Continue reading The Jolly Bauble – A Children’s Tale
These tiles are from St David's Cathedral in Wales. The artist John Piper recalled how he loved to go to this Cathedral because of the beauty of its tiled floor. I can see his point, the tiles are magnificent. https://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/ St David's Cathedral from above. Greater expanse of tiling (later tiles) The mediaeval tiles and… Continue reading Tiles
Seems an age ago that we used to give the dustmen a Christmas box - what we would call a Christmas tip these days. In our household, when I was a child, there would be much discussion over how much to leave and whether it would go to the correct crew. Not tipping apparently ran… Continue reading Dustmen’s Christmas Box
It was a grey November day on the way home from Aldeburgh and being desperate for a coffee and there being no Starbucks in sight ( definitely not the place for one) we dropped into Walberswick. Well, in reality you can't just drop in, you have to go down a long and windy road and… Continue reading A Gem of a Reading Spot in Suffolk.
There's a tree I see maybe twice a year in Ilmington in the Cotswolds. To my mind it has a certain symmetry that I find visually most appealing. It's in the centre of the village opposite The Howard Arms. (We were there on our honeymoon last week, but we didn't tell them!) https://howardarms.com There's a… Continue reading The Perfect Tree
My debut novel. For over six months the emigrants were cooped up on the Princess Rose, a three masted barque that had carried them from Liverpool to Canada. In Victoria they were transferred to The Beaver a steam powered side wheeler. They approach Colville, their new home. "To be charitable, the settlement looked promising, if… Continue reading Colville’s Bastion
From Lorna's Command Centre 