Monthly Archives: March 2012

useful and beautiful

What is it about Arts and Craft which so touch the English soul?   No matter the size of the house, and Wrightwick Manor is large, it feels like home.  Perhaps we have a national tendency to make things approachable,  Le … Continue reading

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warhorses and honey

A walk along the Thames in Oxford last week gave some hope, huge fat bees pottering around early blossom. I have been reading Stephen Mitchell’s new translation of The Iliad, a poem I shamefully confess I have not read.  It … Continue reading

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