“I’ll be with you in the squeeze of a lemon” Oliver Goldsmith Mike and Sheila purchased a robust cottage in North Norfolk, with a garden more befitting the scale of a Victorian smallholding than a domestic backyard. The reason Mike required such a generous plot was to...
“To bless the holy Spring, which makes a garden a paradise, all I need is a soup bowl, a soup bowl of our own risi e bisi. There in hundreds of tiny little globes, I savour a tender green jewel of the earth scattered in a white sea of tender smiles”...
“Soup and Fish explain half the emotions of life” – Sydney Smith Back in the early eighties, before Tuscany was trampled underfoot by New Labour voters looking to buy a seconda casa, my family and a group of friends, took a large run-down villa in...
‘Sometimes I read a book with pleasure but detest the author”- Jonathan Swift Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio’s life spanned the final years of the sixteenth century and the dawning of the seventeenth. A vainglorious, amour propre painter and very much...
Frances Bissell was one of the most acclaimed cookery writers in England in the 1980’s. She wrote regularly for The Times for over thirteen years, as well as Harpers Bazaar, the New York Times and Homes & Gardens. She also managed to fit in over two dozen...
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