sermon for a bird

  Being at home so much now cobwebs catch my eye. At first I want to chase them from ceilings with an upturned broom. Guilt...

Birds and flowers The Chinese once had a whole school of painting devoted to birds and flowers. The study of it was part o...

Frida and Louisa Frida and I only knew each other for a little while. She hung around the sewing machine for a week o...

An oyster shell-coloured sky today - sheets of water all about and it seems a far cry from the dry we had only ...

Yesterday my feet took me to the museum and my eyes enjoyed it immensely. Was it Darwin who said that god had a fondness for b...

Pipe smoke/wood smoke/sooty chimneys Early evenings Pie: chicken and leek,spanakopita, apple Puzzling out knitting sti...

The word January - the name we have for the first month of the Gregorian calendar, comes from a Roman god. Janus, a god with t...