Seeing: Monet’s Garden at Giverny

Seeing: Monet’s Garden at Giverny

Many people look AT the world rather than looking INTO it. I suggested previously that “many have no visual memory because most people simply have never been taught to look”. When my father was teaching me to use the wood/graphite interface we owned no...
The Outsider – A Perpetual Watcher.

The Outsider – A Perpetual Watcher.

I was brought up a ‘service brat’. When your father is in the services you move every three years or so. But you are not alone in this, all the kids in the married quarters around you have dads whose postings rarely coincide with yours. So you make...
Last Light at Days End

Last Light at Days End

The day started with cancellations. #Southern, our local rail company, seems incapable of running a railway properly. The morning was despoiled by cancellations on our branch line, and I had a call from OH to rescue her day trip to London. Dashing to the station I ran...