As every camera in the land will be clicking away during this unusual weather, I feel that mine should not be the odd one out . . . although I have always been subject to more than a touch of snow phobia. Even as a child I did not rush around in it screaming...
That particular and exciting moment has come round again – the day when the first complete copy of a new book arrives from the binder. Has it worked? Are the pages in the correct order? Do all the colours, carefully compared from swatches of cloth and papers,...
How powerful is this short word, and how deeply important to all of us, especially at this time in world history. This was a New Year gift, sent to us by our friends in New York, Russell Maret and Annie Schlecter who we know spent much time and energy electioneering....
The margins and sheltered backwaters of our river are frozen. This is one of the manmade piers (called cribs in this part of the world) made for fishermen to operate from, which are visible at low tide as here. The country is afflicted at the moment by very cold winds...
William Morris is famous for having said . . . Have nothing in your house [or garden!] that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. I feel that he would heartily approve of this, as both beautiful and useful . . . a customized wheelbarrow, given to...
. . . from a suitably frosty Wye Valley . . . . . . and from old “Bah, Humbug!” himself . . . and from Frances, unusually in the place where Nicolas is traditionally hidden, behind the...
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