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“I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own.”
– Michel de Montaigne (1533 -1592)
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Don’t tell me how to run my art school
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 losing....
Upbeat Update
Eastern Daily Press. April 2022. Words Stacia Briggs. Photos Brittany Woodman. Sometimes the best ideas emerge from the worst of times – when a cancer diagnosis shook Keith Reeves’s world, it didn’t take him long to create something positive from a negative. Firstly,...
Begin Part 1
"What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are happy in: Where can we live but days?" Philip Larkin As a young schoolboy I looked on enviously at a bohemian generation that had adopted ‘Paint it Black’ and...
Begin. Part 2 -Facing the oven
“Not in Utopia, subterranean fields, Or some secreted island, heaven knows where! But in the very world, which is the world Of all of us, the place where, in the end, We find our happiness, or not at all” - William Wordsworth All the classical cuisines of the world -...
Begin. Part 3 – A Change of Mind
"Give me a doctor partridge-plump, Short in the leg and broad in the rump, An endomorph with gentle hands Who'll never make absurd demands That I abandon all my vices Nor pull a long face in a crisis, But with a twinkle in his eye Will tell me that I have to...
Begin. Part 4 – Growing our food
"Anyone who has been fortunate enough to eat fresh, home-cooked vegetables in France remembers them with pleasure. The French are interested in vegetables as food, rather than as purely nutrient objects valuable solely for their vitamins and minerals." - Julia Child....
Begin. Part 5 – No place like home cooking
“No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at one’s most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, the wisdom of cookbook writers.” - Home Cooking. (1988) Laurie Colwin. During the carnage of the...
Begin. Part 6 – Wine for all reasons
“Life is too short to drink bad wine”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe We live in a time where more wine is available to more people than ever before in history. It has become an egalitarian product, no longer the preserve of the metropolitan establishment or the landed...