Back in the days of penfriends and school exchanges, I used to go to Germany fairly regularly. Â There were certain things I’d look to bring back with me: including the latest copy of Schoener Wohnen, the German interiors magazine. I can’t remember quite where I discovered it. Â Perhaps in the sitting room of one of …
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First the face-lift to the blog: now the work begins. Â Time to start adding some links – partly so you can follow my train of thought (we hope), partly because that is What You’re Meant To Do Online. Â Which means it’s time to check some encyclopedias. I know what you’re thinking. Â It’s really wikipedia these …
So. Â New look, and finally a chance to sort out some of this blog. Â I’m looking back through a lot of what I wrote at the start, later on, and right now. Â And I realise that I’m starting to read my own blog as I read that of others: as an unfolding story. Blogs …
Hello! New look. New functionality. New categories. Gosh. And lots of new to-do lists to make the site work the way I want it. So to take transitions as my theme today seems rather apt. Transitions. It’s part of a book title, and it’s a way of thinking about books you want alongside you when …
Long long ago (well, a few years now), the end of January would tick round, and I would start to receive lots of application forms. My notion for this series was learning from books: but why not other written words? My intention, as I write this, is to honour the people whose forms I read. …
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