A lady friend – refined, middleclass stock, Dubarry wellies in season and a penchant for Mercedes estates – frequently ‘throws’ dinner parties. My anonymous friend being a stranger to simple suppers. We bump into each other on the odd occasion at a nearby...
Genesis 1:26. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” Not wishing...
🎵Oh for the life of a sardine That is the life for me Cavorting and spawning every morning Under the deep blue sea. To have no fear for storm or gale Oh to chase the tail of a whale Oh for the life of a sardine, That is the life for me. 🎵 From the song...
Don’t tell me how to run my art school is a new publication recording the unfolding events of an art school in Guilford in 1968. It is written by Claire Grey with photographs by John Walmsley Claire Grey writes; ‘1968. There is a war that the Americans are...
The leaves ‘sharpened the appetite, strengthened the heart, and gave so great a sharpness to a salad…that it should never be omitted” John Evelyn 1620 – 1706 That the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence is a prosaic reduction of Ovid’s earlier, more...
