” These graveyard gardens are the most peaceful of our London sanctuaries and their dead the quietest” – Virginia Woolf Those unfamiliar with London could…
October’s Cultured Calm Painting Pick is this glorious painting by Claude Monet. Autumn Effect at Argenteuil (1873). The setting is Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris,…
I usually write these posts on a Sunday, although actually I realise I haven’t actually written one in over a month. Perhaps it’s a reflection…
I am always drawn to books set in London and I’m pleased to be able to share another one with you. Dear Mr Bird is…
“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house” Nathaniel Hawthorne, The American Notebooks Nathanial Hawthorne makes an…
I have been enjoying getting back to art galleries over the summer and having the opportunity to stand in front of paintings again. I am…
St John’s Lodge Garden is affectionately known as the secret garden and is tucked away in the inner circle of Regents Park. It is next…
“Rest is not idleness, “And to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, Listening to the murmur of the water, Or…
