by cmadmin | Sep 6, 2023 | Blog
Bringing the colours of nature into her work, artist and journalist Cathy Dillon is harvesting local plants to create her own pigments and ink THE EXISTENCE OF COLOUR is one of the great gifts of the physical universe, and the ability to see and appreciate it...
by cmadmin | Apr 13, 2023 | Blog
Ever sat in front of a blank page or screen and felt like your brain was just as empty? There are ways of breaking free of that state and allowing ideas to flood your mind Everybody, at some time, will have to produce a piece of writing by a deadline (I...
by cmadmin | Feb 26, 2023 | Blog
Even if it seems like it will never end, winter doesn’t last forever. The first harbingers of spring still arrive with a very welcome sense of regularity I was cradling a cup of tea in my hands, letting the heat penetrate into them, when I couldn’t ignore that...
by cmadmin | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog, Sketches
Can a third-generation Bertie Wooster get out of his impending marriage to Penny Dreadful? Only Jeeves, great-great-nephew of the original famous Jeeves, can save the day THERE WAS NO TIME TO LOSE. “Jeeves!” I called out. “Jeeves!” “Sir?” He was in the front sitting...
by cmadmin | Jan 1, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
How can we stay positive as we anxiously enter an uncertain 2023? NEW YEAR’S EVE this year – or rather, last year, or yesterday – was spent in the company of friends in the village in southwest France. It was a convivial occasion during which I drank far too...
by cmadmin | Jul 28, 2022 | Blog
You are now entering Bussière-Badil in southwestern France. Not everything is what it seems, or what you expect, in Bussière-Badil, well off the beaten track in France. But what can you expect from a village that has been on the maps since 768 CE? When I open the...
