A singing map
I loved this idea, using a song to guide you in lieu of a map. From one of Rory Stewart's...
Podcast review – Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals
Listening time: 18 minutes.
This podcast is now also available on Spotify, here.
Dorothy, sister to the...
Green on green
A lovely description and an idyllic image of an English county.
‘Herefordshire is green on green, lichen on old apple...
Rheumy-eyed earl
Adam Nicolson appears to have grown up among the casual antiquity of aristocratic homes, leaving him with the childhood memory...
Of centuries and cows
These quirky comments by Steinbeck charmed me - first his reaction to the first room he chose to work in,...
Many-windowed factory
The Hale family’s first sight of their new home is grim and constrained, comprising small, brick houses dotted among ‘many-windowed...
Weed-slithered rocks
This evokes a few childhood seaside holidays in England, hopping over seaweed-slippery rocks, to play and paddle in rock pools....
Tender-coloured sky
Elizabeth Gaskell was a Victorian novelist and a friend of Charlotte Bronte, whose biography she wrote. I see her as...
Storm-beat shrub
Perfect Brontesque flora and climate, echoing the landscape of chill emotions this orphan needed to navigate to reach adulthood uncrushed,...
A sunny spot to read
I fell in love with this room when I saw this sunlit painting. The Victorian artist has captured a perfect...
Barnacle-encrusted boulders
The clingon power of the barnacle is astonishing, as anyone who ever tried to prise them off the rocks in...
Self-renewing meadow
An image of ancient sustainability, a meadow which has renewed itself for hundreds or perhaps thousands of years, and with...
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