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What Is Truth?

Ta-dah! The re-jig of this lovely website continues. We finally had the photos done properly but the ongoing saga with that is such that the wretched pictures which are crystal-clear in other contexts are coimg out blurred on the products pages. Aaarrrghhh! Anyway, that can be fixed (surely?) but they are really nice pics. More […]

Home Thoughts

Oh to be in Somerset now Spring is here, to paraphrase R. Browning Tell me why I don’t like mondays…… Had a most excellent weekend and now back to reality, boo, hiss. I spent Saturday messing around in the countryside; I had to go to Crewkerne in Somerset and it was a perfect day for […]

High Jinks

Meredith Frampton: Trial and Error William Goscombe John: A Boy at Play Arthur G Walker: Christ at the Whipping Post Dora Gordine: Javanese Head The best week of 2019 so far. I received news this week that was so good, it made me nauseous. Do you ever get that? I inherited it from my Mum, […]

Be Still My Soul

Well, last week was pretty ghastly. Not that anything in particular happened but it was just filled with conflict and stress and fatigue. My tolerance level seemed to have diminshed significantly; you know when you have that feeling that you’re surrounded by buzzing bees and can’t get away? The only time I didn’t feel like […]

Antidisestablishmentarianism. Confused? You will be.

Extinction Rebellion chaos at Marble Arch Easter weekend was odd because I read about the Sri Lanka bombings just before I left for church. Those poor people, just going about their business. It was one of the few occasions when I actually stopped to consider that it is now conceivable that I might go to […]