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Foot-paced life and Laurie Lee
One of the books I took with me for my recent few solo days in a cottage in Cumbria was Laurie Lee’s memoir of setting out in 1934, aged nineteen,...
Foot-paced life and Laurie Lee
One of the books I took with me for my recent few solo days in a cottage in Cumbria was Laurie Lee’s memoir of setting out in 1934, aged nineteen,...
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.
Scotch and Soda at 9 am
When J G Ballard's wife died of pneumonia in 1964, single fathering was rare. Acquaintances and family offered to take on his three children, told him that he was risking...
Scotch and Soda at 9 am
When J G Ballard's wife died of pneumonia in 1964, single fathering was rare. Acquaintances and family offered to take on his three children, told him that he was risking...
How to Enjoy Doing Your Laundry
Present Time 'Does housekeeping interest you at all?' Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend. 'I think it really ought to be just as good as writing'. She could not...
How to Enjoy Doing Your Laundry
Present Time 'Does housekeeping interest you at all?' Virginia Woolf wrote to a friend. 'I think it really ought to be just as good as writing'. She could not...
Apples and Alcotts
Initially these Little-Women-esque siblings were going to be ice-skating, but I was sidetracked by thinking about apples. The Marches' home in Little Women is inspired by Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott lived...
Apples and Alcotts
Initially these Little-Women-esque siblings were going to be ice-skating, but I was sidetracked by thinking about apples. The Marches' home in Little Women is inspired by Orchard House, where Louisa May Alcott lived...
How to Keep Creating (Even with Triplets)
My latest painting was inspired by Barbara Hepworth and her lean-to greenhouse in St Ives, Cornwall. Hepworth was a leading modernist sculptor, and also the mother of four, including triplets...
How to Keep Creating (Even with Triplets)
My latest painting was inspired by Barbara Hepworth and her lean-to greenhouse in St Ives, Cornwall. Hepworth was a leading modernist sculptor, and also the mother of four, including triplets...