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...