Monthly Archives: May 2020

Lockdown – a view from my study window

The weather in mid-April seemed to range from one extreme to another – damp and cloudy to bright, hot and sunny, still and serene, to windy, gusty and sometimes stormy grey, with raindrops obliterating themselves, almost like machine gun fire, at the window. ‘Coronavirus’ keeps me ‘safe’ at home and I watch these weather patterns, […]

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Lisbon – trees, trams and tiles …in technicolour

We’re meant to be in Lisbon now, with trips to Sintra and Porto but all is lost, owing to ‘coronavirus’. My first ever visit to Lisbon wasn’t so long ago – so I’m re-engaging virtually. This is a beautiful city on the River Tagus – which is very wide and rolls down into the Atlantic […]

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In the Pink

A surprising happening … my spiny cactus suddenly burst out with all these flowers … Shockingly glorious! I love ‘pink’.

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Abbots Bromley – my old school, revived by the Chinese …

I was aged ten when I went to the boarding school of St Mary and St Anne, Abbots Bromley, in 1957. Seven years later, in 1963, I left to explore the world. In July 2019, there was an article in ‘The Times’ about Abbots Bromley closing down. It had changed over the years from a […]

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