In an off-the-beaten-track corner of Rome a week ago, I realised that the layers of living, shown here by the excavation, have a quality which is present in so many of the gardens where I work. How many untold years have people cultivated this soil before? Who were...
I was just looking for some really good reclaimed slates and then Mark was on the end of the phone, and the next day I met him! He has been buying and selling slates since he was 17, his warehouse is immaculate, beyond organised, and he is the nicest and obviously...
For whatever the reasons, this is just too much! Nature left on its own makes a perfect shaped oak tree that we can wonder at and admire. What romance! Our native oak can take 500 years or more to grow as large as it can, and then 300 years to die. So if you see along...
A visit to the old Tate a few days ago, found us standing in front of so many wonderful paintings by Turner. I still haven’t recovered and don’t want to! The beauty, the delicacy, the skill, the insight and intelligence and the passion of his use of colour...
This was the High Street in Oxford this morning, Wednesday. Yesterday was grey and raining, and tomorrow is forecast grey and raining. But today, the light is fantastic, a blue sky, you can see detail which is just not there at all in the so often grey. This is...
Such colours, such luxury, such style, such opulence, glamour, joy, and then such scent as well! Beyond dreams, beyond belief, imagination, beyond anything we could ever make! And you can have this every spring by just taking a tiny bit of trouble, looking forward,...
