Autumn leaves on a Crimson Glory vine Well, it's been a long time. I have so much I've wanted to write about, that I barely know where to start, but thought, in light of the Corona virus worldwide lockdowns and some unexpected time, I would write a blog post that would take all our minds off the horror we currently find ourselves assaulted by around the world. So this blog post will be light in tone, and full of things I've found over the past months that I've been absent from here, and give everyone things to think about, read, and distract from daily reality. Reading: Books: I ..read more

via Everything I have loved for a long time, I have slowly started to .... not like quite so much, and it's all thanks to social media. I seem to have a problem whereby if I see something too many times, with too many other people liking it/ owning it/ lusting after it, I get very turned off of it. If something becomes a mass trend, then it most definitely loses its cache for me, particularly when it's filtering down to the mass market and is inevitably butchered and bastardised in the process. Exhibit A - Chinoiserie. Chinese Bedroom at Belton House via National Trust UK Ve ..read more