'...that we might be able to love what our understanding has seen and what our memory has held.' St. Catherine of Siena (c1...

Nebamun hunting in the marshes fragment from the tomb-chapel of Nebamun Thebes, Egypt Late 18th Dynasty, around 1350 BC © Trustee...

The Little Boy Next Door graciously accepts my invitation to visit and explores the cottage, room by room, with me trailing behind to answe...

I am the only person out in the soft rain and the squirrels ignore me, rustling industriously through the beech leaves. I can hear the t...

October coincides with the start of the academic year and in the past it has been a busy time for me so I am very grateful for your autum...

Quattro Stagioni: Autunno Cy Twombly Dear Friends and Autumnaholics, I tried to make a list of Things to Do in Autumn but I gro...

...in Tarangire National Park, Tanzania... MasterM has seen his first cheetah. An ambition realised. Also, he forgot to put the rub...

We put the garden furniture away in the summer house before the rain came. Afterwards, in an effort to look forward, I went out and bough...

These are single motifs from a huge antique Iranian cloth, part of the extraordinary textile collection of Waddesdon Manor. The fabric i...

I still have bad dreams about taking exams. Sometimes I am too late, or it is the wrong day or the wrong hall. Occasionally I have forgo...