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...

M y granddaughter Beatrice and Mimi in perfect accord. photo © Joan West

M othering Sunday in England today and I want to be reminded of mine, Blanche Apperley  Gillam always known as 'Mitzi' (1910 - 1990)...

M y first reaction to the 2012 Oscar modes (that's what a big dressy number was called in my day) was not to bother. This year I jus...

Found myself this morning, nine o'clock at the Olympic Aquatic Centre. Nobody more surprised than me, really,  a) to be going to the D...

The Bag Lady & The Tramp I excelled myself and cooked my husband a three-course meal tonight. It kind of evolved from the contents ...

A plaster cast from the Parthenon Frieze to go with the hand I bought in a specialist Paris art shop  and the foot from the Sir ...

All images courtesy Christie's catalogue 'The Ski Sale' 2006

Please look away now if you don't like ex-animals (below).  I painted them  at The Prince's Drawing School   in Shoreditch under th...