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Back to being me.
It is possible to forget a lot in seven years, especially if, during those years, you have been a carer, lost a fortune, broken both arms, had cancer, surgery, builders, hospital stays and more surgery. My life is one long … Continue reading
Raining and pouring.
Here’s a sight you haven’t seen, I think, for about seven years. Yes it’s my dining room table. Or, more specifically, my dining room table where it looks as if it has been raining doll parts. I meant to be … Continue reading
A step back.
A brief posting all about me, me, me, for which I apologise. I’ve had a bit of a setback health wise, which needs recovering from. I have started putting the library out on the drive again on fine days. Our … Continue reading
The perlitikal situashun.
This column never has been and never will be anything to do with politics. It’s about artists like you and me and what we do when life in general and relatives in particular, go a bit manky. However, the current … Continue reading
The Min
Miniatura was absolutely wonderful. I would have written about it sooner but the unexpected aftermath, nothing at all to do with the show, has floored me. The OH, unpredictable and difficult, took himself off to Italy for a week, the … Continue reading
Autumn Min.
I am delighted to say that this time next week, I’ll be at Miniatura. After all the sadness of the last few weeks we all could do with something as uplifting as Autumn Miniatura. I have never failed, whether as … Continue reading
The new normal.
When something as momentous as the death of a woman known all over the planet, just as ‘The Queen’, happens we can be shocked and disoriented for quite some time. Like most of the rest of the nation, I was … Continue reading
More thoughts about the Queen.
Like me, perhaps you cannot stop thinking about our late Queen, Elizabeth the Second. It may be only now that we have lost her that we can see, in retrospect, just how singular she was. The First Queen Elizabeth was … Continue reading
The Queen who had to be seen to be believed.
I have filed this post under the category of ‘About artists’ because no artist ever designed their entire life of public service with as much attention to detail as the Queen. She herself said she had to be seen to … Continue reading
Sundries. With Cornflakes.
This is a bit of a catch up before I immerse myself in dolls. First to news of SMIL, who, for new readers, is my Step-mother-in-law, who has Alzheimer’s. She has only been living in a care home for just … Continue reading