by Patrick | Apr 22, 2024 | art, education, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Uncategorized
I’ve just been reading Juliet Barkers analysis of Agincourt. Not as entertaining as Bernard Cornwell’s story (he uses her research) but far more detailed and informative of reality. Recently we have spent much time denying the relevance of history to current events,...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2023 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel
Why do I go cruising? This was only my second cruise, and my partner has booked a third, to Iceland. So why? I spent nearly 20 years driving thousands of miles through Europe, Southern Africa and the States reviewing hotels for my online magazine, after a previous 20...
by Patrick | Jul 19, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, education, Environment, Lifestyle, oil, Op Art, painting, pastels, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
“This happy band of men, this little world This precious stone set in silver sea This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, This England” Shakespeare’s Richard II “The centuries have left their enduring mark on the land and its people in the form of age...
by Patrick | Mar 20, 2023 | Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
(This is the second of the memoires for nephews and grandchildren requested by them to help them remember and honour their grandad) I have dad’s wartime record but not his own flight book, which was burned at the end of the war. He said lots of them were burned, the...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Attracted to the glamour of a career in art and design, new students would arrive in college for their Foundation course, in effect the first year of a four-year degree programme. There are (or were) over 46 disciplines offered under the banner of art and design...
by Patrick | Oct 19, 2022 | art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance, Travel
It’s the cat’s fault. He doesn’t mean to really, but he manages to wake me every morning before dawn. I think it is related to his nocturnal prowling but even as dawn has moved later now, in mid-October, he is still waking me around 5a.m. I lie warm under the duvet...
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