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Category Archives: About artists.
The in between days.
What do you do on the days between Christmas and new year? I know what 58 people will be doing, they’ll be doing my Christmas card. As you know, if you are a regular reader, these have been getting more … Continue reading
A Christmas Carol.
One of the joys of Miniatura is meeting miniaturists for the first time. I love to hear of people’s houses, what they are doing with them, and, sometimes, be invited to provide the residents. At Autumn Miniatura I was delighted … Continue reading
In a hurry
Welcome to a lateish and attenuated blog as I struggle to catch up with myself. As you know I have been making my own Christmas cards for over thirty years. At first they were just my dolls that I had … Continue reading
A brush with art.
I had forgotten what a joy china painting can be. First, however, after seven years and major building work, you have to find all that is necessary for the task. I certainly had everything I needed seven years ago, now … Continue reading
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 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