Stories of Art and Life
Bird Berries!
In her memoir, literary-editor-turned-writer Diana Athill describes going with her brother to gaze at the bull on the neighbouring farm when they were children. This was ‘not a random whim...
Bird Berries!
In her memoir, literary-editor-turned-writer Diana Athill describes going with her brother to gaze at the bull on the neighbouring farm when they were children. This was ‘not a random whim...
Things with Feathers (or Facing Fear)
My two-year-old fell from the top of a ladder when we were on holiday in Devon last week. There were several hours of terror as the doctors did tests to...
Things with Feathers (or Facing Fear)
My two-year-old fell from the top of a ladder when we were on holiday in Devon last week. There were several hours of terror as the doctors did tests to...
Do You Know Your Floors?
One of the lesser known foibles of D. H. Lawrence is that he loved to scrub floors. I have been reading his collected letters, five thick volumes, and it seems...
Do You Know Your Floors?
One of the lesser known foibles of D. H. Lawrence is that he loved to scrub floors. I have been reading his collected letters, five thick volumes, and it seems...
Spring by the Sea
Talland House in Cornwall was the scene of Virginia Woolf’s ‘most important memory’, the memory, she felt, on which all her others were founded.
Spring by the Sea
Talland House in Cornwall was the scene of Virginia Woolf’s ‘most important memory’, the memory, she felt, on which all her others were founded.
Dawn Treader
Doris Lessing was someone who saw that practical, homely details matter, that they make up a lot of who we are.
Dawn Treader
Doris Lessing was someone who saw that practical, homely details matter, that they make up a lot of who we are.
The Web of Noticing
I found myself thinking of the idea of noticing as prayer-in-the-world when I walked around Beatrix Potter’s farmhouse in the Lake District with my children during their Easter holidays.
The Web of Noticing
I found myself thinking of the idea of noticing as prayer-in-the-world when I walked around Beatrix Potter’s farmhouse in the Lake District with my children during their Easter holidays.