Bits and pieces

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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Lyme disease… be on guard

Last Friday and Saturday was Worldwide Lyme Disease protest days : http://worldwide-lyme-protest.org.uk/ Lyme disease is a dreadful, dreadful debilitating disease which affects thousands of people, and many more run the risk of getting it because of the lack of publicity and awareness surrounding it. Lyme disease is a bacterial infection that is spread to humans by infected ticks. Ticks are nasty tiny creatures, tiny blood sucking creatures […]

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