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A Day of Craft & Design in Henley – The Highlights
Went to the Contemporary Craft & Design Fair in Henley today (these days, held in the Henley Showground nestled in glorious rolling countryside just outside the unspoilt village of Hambleden) –...
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Going Organic – An Exquisite Adventure!
I woke up this morning (as usual, these days, on a Friday) to find a delivery of fresh, organic food on my kitchen table – boxes tied with string full of things like bunched purple carrots, golden...
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Christmas Unplugged
Its been a week since the tree lights were unplugged for another year and, having more than sunk my feet into the freshly turned earth of 2013, I’m getting the urge to take one last look over my...
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Scattering light to a wall near you
The next couple of posts will have an air of getting down to business about them – and so I find almost want to apologise in advance for beating my own drum – and yet, at the end of the day, this blog...
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Market day
Markets are such colourful, vibrant, ‘happening’ places to hang out in; a cross between hard commerce and performing arts, they do a good job of encapsulating the essence of all that humanity thinks it...
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Bath-ing in Christmas
With my family, I spent Friday in Bath visiting the Christmas Market that happens every year in the streets all around the cathedral. One of my two favourites, along with Winchester, this annual event...
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It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it
There’s no better benchmark of our own life-evolution than the Christmas into New Year period – perhaps because we can so easily compare it with our life-stock of remarkably similar circumstances,...
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In search of hygge
Going back to what innately draws us as the winter season plays out its pantomime of darkness and severity, we find ourselves recognising the light of ourselves shining back at us across the cosy...
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When cracks start to appear…and light comes pouring in
This was one of the most powerfully apt metaphors that had ever presented itself to me. When this everyday domestic appliance upon which we "relied" for sustenance formed a crack and "broke down", I...
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Going direct
(In art...as in many spheres of activity; very topical, this one!) the pressing ‘need’ to make money has overtaken logic at many stages of the game, which is what happens when we place money at the...
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