‘No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season’ – Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows An old photo of some of the best wallpaper that I have ever seen!
‘Baking is like washing–the results are equally temporary.’ – Patricia Briggs, Raven’s Shadow A photo from my 2013 baking challenge. I was a better photographer than I was a baker, but I really should bake these again…
‘Only with kisses and red poppies can I love you’ – Pablo Neruda
‘There’s real life for you, embodied in that little cart. The open road, the dusty highway, the heath, the common, the hedgerows, the rolling downs! Camps, villages, towns, cities! Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that’s always changing!’ – Kenneth… Continue reading #145: Classic car
‘When we look in the mirror what we see is a version of who we imagine we are.’ – Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
‘The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.’ – J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan Taken from the viewing gallery on the Shard last year. It’s a pretty spectacular view from up there…
‘We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).’ – Alain de Botton Another old photo from 2012 and another trip to Paris. Damn, it’s a photogenic… Continue reading #119: Musée du Louvre
‘Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people’s.’ – J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Today in 2014, I went on the Harry Potter studio tour. Although I’ve always been a bigger fan of the… Continue reading #118: Magic wands
‘Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century…define clearly the Gothic profile of this old Paris upon an horizon of azure, make its contour float in a wintry fog which clings to its innumeral chimneys.’ – Victor… Continue reading #97: Notre Dame de Paris
‘Architects give us temples in which something marvelous is obviously going on.’ – Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons Another old photo from roughly this time last year…
