Friday comes around again. I hope you’re doing something nice this weekend. I will mainly be found hiding out in my studio, Painting marginal water plants around this moorhen chick.

Just finished and highly recommend John McGahern’s Memoir. The passages about his mother are deeply moving

No not the house from Psycho the Folly at Herstmonceux. !

*One month before her 95th birthday, Patricia Routledge wrote something that still gently echoes:* **“I’ll be turning 95 this coming Monday. In my younger years, I was often filled with worry — worry that I wasn’t quite good enough, that no one would cast me again, that I

Lovely lunch at The Star - The Star - Staff are so friendly and nothing is too much trouble!

‘The main road is closed too’ by Peter Brook RBA

Rain at last and somewhat more welcome than for Peter Brook and Shep in ‘Swaledale - Just a Passing Shower’ as they trudge through the puddles towards the top of the Dale, with little prospect of TEAS at Crook Seal, the former roadside inn now used as a barn. (Private Collection)

🍁🦊Competition time! To celebrate the coming of autumn, a cornucopia of delights! A signed copy of my book, 'Reynard the Fox' and accompanying gold-tipped notebook, 'A Fox for All Seasons,' a bar of fine Apple and Blackberry chocolate, a box of powdery cinnamon knots, a packet