Tracing Rainbows

Way back in the last millennium when I was young, my Dad and I would sometimes go to lunch in The Lamb Inn, in Norwich.  I haven't bee...

  It sounds like it ought to be a dance, but it isn't. It's a special bit of kit Bob made for me over the weekend. This piece ...

I loved watching anything  featuring the genius Brian Cant. Whether it was in Play School, and then later, PlayAway - or listening to his...

Do you ever buy fresh flowers? for yourself, for a gift - or like me, do you take a turn on the flower rota at church?  Here's somethin...

We discovered on Tuesday that Corfe Castle - built by the King as one of the Royal Palaces - had one quite unusual feature- a carving of ...

Rosie is fond of sorting things out, or more specifically, emptying things out but not putting them back again. This is, I suspect, genetic...

In the week after the Manchester bomb, the Irish Band, Rend Collective, sought to write something to express their feelings.  Since they wro...

There have been a number of 'found objects' round here in the past week. Looking for something else entirely, whilst in the loft, I ...

No, nothing to do with Mary Poppins, and the Emma Thompson/Tom Hanks film . I suppose it ought to be Lady, not Mrs - for today's post i...

Carson Davis Brown is an American artist.   His latest exhibition is a comment on capitalism. He says "Consumption on a global level i...

This is supposedly a 1920's corruption of the original phrase 'Mind your own business'. I don't for a minute believe the the...

So many of my friends have joined me over recent weeks in quoting the words of the prophet Micah...   He has shown you O Man, what is g...

I didn't have a Useless Gadget of the month in May. I was going to mention the Muggi , which is a strange plastic tray - like the ones...

Well done Lauren Child for being named as the new Children's Laureate. As well as her wonderful Charlie and Lola stuff, and her fresh,...