Alexei Navalny
The Russian activist is dead. Long live Navalny.
Read MoreA Swan (Dive)
Babe Paley. Definitely not someone of the #MeToo generation. Then again, who knows? These women hold a certain fascination for me as we live through the pile up of sex and power between the genders.
Read MoreArthur: An Update
Man. It’s been a while between posts. I’ve been the single aunt holding down a job and looking after le petite dauphin so that’s my excuse.
Read MoreThey Say a Child Changes You. Let's See About That Shall We?
In a few short weeks, Arthur will be arriving for a student exchange and staying with us until the end of the year. I don’t think we quite know what we’ve got ourselves into.
Read MoreFour Weddings & a Funeral - Revisited.
Kristin Scott Thomas and Anna Chancellor are the best characters in FW&aF. We all know it and after revisiting the movie the other week, it’s only cemented my theory.
Read MoreShop New Arrivals
Online browsing is a thing. I can peruse certain online stores for h-o-u-r-s. Not to buy (believe it or not) but to gaze and test my powers of denial and self restraint.
Read MoreSummerhill
Our family home is literally reduced to rubble. None of us have lived in it for a number of decades but the knowledge that the place is no longer standing saddens me deeply.
Read MoreThe English Patient
He began to rub green-black paste onto the rib cage. It was ground peacock bone bartered for in a medina to the west or the south—the most potent healer of skin…
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