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Kaleidoscopic daydream
Lead and glass, colour and sunlight. Simple enough ingredients, yet in the right hands, capable of lifting one’s spirit beyond the prosaic and into the realm of beauty. Madonna probably designed by...
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….And not a sprout in sight!
This morning I went to see John Betjeman again. On the concourse at St Pancras International. Not because it’s Poetry Day (yes, it’s today!), but because I had a special train to catch: the Eurostar to...
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Follow the white brick road
….And get lost, like I did today in Bruges. All the streets in the old town in Bruges are paved, like they must have been for the last several centuries. And as I was not following the directions in my...
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Devil in the detail
For lack of electricity, there was no TV. For lack of TV, there was no Big Brother. For lack of Big Brother, people didn’t have anything to talk about and so got bored. For lack of anything to talk...
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Who framed Hans Memling?
Well, I don’t know about that, but I know that the fingertips of an elegant Flemish lady of the 16th century were caught on a frame. Ouch! No, that can’t have been painful at all. Rather, it must have...
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Strawberry fields forever
I used to think that paintings of the past could be enjoyed for the beauty they express, which is clearly visible to viewers even if one doesn’t know anything about the painters, their historical and...
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