If your list of chapels to visit next summer includes the Chagall chapel near Tonbridge you might want to add the Watts Mortuary Chapel near Guildford. Very different in style but no less extraordinary. The chapel is the brainchild, and indeed the work, of Mary Seton Watts (1849-1938), painter, sculptor, potter and wife, in his …
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Sunday in Victoria Park, Hackney
The glorious sun which succeeded a week of grim, grey, damp and dreary days had everyone out in Victoria Park on Sunday – the families, the dogs, the cyclists, the runners. In fact, most of the population of Tower Hamlets and Hackney which bound the park – and were jointly responsible for running it until …
Little My……
My good friends who used to live in the penthouse at our Grade 1 listed Isokon Flats have now gone off to run a Moomin shop in Camden Lock. I must admit that, to my shame, I had never even heard of the Moomins – the rather delightful fairy tale characters created by the Finnish writer Tove …
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The last couple of weeks has seen me in Yorkshire, in Aberdeen and in Dorset… I started my journey at Hebden Bridge, staying with my good friend the food journalist and writer Geoff Tansey. Geoff’s house all but over looks the river Calder which runs through – and sometimes indeed floods – the town. Here were …
Sculpture in Cotswolds
If you were looking for a home for an outdoor sculpture exhibition you could scarcely do better than the Old Rectory in Quenington, deep in the heart of the Cotswolds. Down the winding lane past the sixteenth century church, through the archway, into a gravelled courtyard. Plants to buy ranged down one side, the long …
Whitstable beach
Apart from admiring the beauties of Sarah’s finely turned sods when I visited her last week, we also took a walk (with Harold obviously) along Whitstable Beach. It looked so very English and wintry I feel I needed to share… And if you look on the right in the next image you will see what …