I have just been prompted to attribute this painting of mine (from an old blog post  here ) entitled "Flamenco" to John S...

*Dog watch , in  marine  or  naval  terminology, is a watch , a period of work duty or a work shift , between 1600 and 2000 (4pm and 8pm)...

D oes anybody else suffer from  Intermittent Domestic Goddess/Domestic Whore syndrome?  Not much routine, not much motivation until you wa...

We celebrate Mothering Sunday in Britain today.  I made  this  drawing from a sculpture at the V and A's   Museum of Childhood   in...

T he only Christmas present I can think to give you is The Nutcracker performed by the Royal Ballet at London's Royal Opera House...

I f you thought I had committed blog suicide, so did I, yikes - having posted nothing since August. So I am just back from the brink with...

image from http://deconstructingyourself.com/concentration-ii-learning-to-listen.html   May I recommend that as well as holiday readi...

Blue Sky Thinking : A management cliché, most commonly heard in the UK, referring to open-ended thinking and inspired by t...

T hey tried to chuck the elderly tramp off my train yesterday.  I noticed him on the platform at Portsmouth & Southsea: an intelli...

Fashion , by Polygoon-Profilti (producer) / Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (curator) , is licensed under Creative Commons – ...

I'm smoking again (after 18 months of being a good, boring girl). Shock horror!!!.  But I'm not because this isn't a ...

M y modest tribute to Queen Elizabeth on her Diamond Jubilee is to wonder how many times  and with what patience she has submitted to having...