Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Doors

I may have mentioned this before, in fact I’m pretty sure I have but there is something fascinating about doors… the possibility of almost anything unexpected being on the other side. Arriving home and opening the front door, yes, it’s your house, but what is waiting on the doormat? Who has left a message on the phone? […]

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Flowers

 I love flowers, growing free and wild, cultivated, arranged… I’m hopeless at arranging it is such a skill, an art, and I admire those who are experts! This arrangement looks so simple, and yet so effective.

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The medieval mind

A pig playing what looks like a peculiar sort of bagpipe, two other pigs clapping their trotters, no doubt in time to the music… This is not far removed from Hieronymous Bosche! It’s wonderful and I found it on a misericord in Rippon Cathedral

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