This a portrait of Virginia Woolf which I painted some years ago. I was struck by her beauty and her sensitivity, and I think also by the intelligence and strength which I saw in her. I am a great admirer of her work, though I have to admit I can only read it in snatches.Continue reading “NEW BEGINNINGS”
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Prittiwi
In my blog called In Praise of Cats which I published on my former website michousgarden.com, I talked about my beloved cat Prittiwi. I was prompted to do this because, whilst de-cluttering, I had come across a poem I had written about her in 1990. I had just come back to England in 1989 onContinue reading “Prittiwi”
SNIPPETS 3
I was listening to the radio and hearing how other people were filling their time during lockdown. Several had taken to watching films, sometimes for hours on end. One said she was watching whole re-runs of the Sopranos, and Mad Men. I thought it surely couldn’t be a good thing to watch something for hoursContinue reading “SNIPPETS 3”
Snippets 2
I feel I would like to pay my own personal tribute to Captain Sir Tom Moore. I felt really sad at the news that he had passed away as he has been so much part of my life during this lockdown period. For me he was the quintessential Englishman, upright, honourable, gentle and kind, withContinue reading “Snippets 2”
SNIPPETS
A snippet is a small piece of material that has been cut from a larger cloth. I am using this term to define small pieces of information that I have gleaned, usually from the radio. I have acquired the habit in lockdown of turning on the radio at random, and very often I hear somethingContinue reading “SNIPPETS”
A Room of my Own 