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January 10, 2012 | I have been sitting on Brita von Schoenaich's birches for too long Almost but not quite. The image has been looming on the desktop and housewifery has hit the computer screen. Why are they there? Simply because over and over again the simplicity of this planting strikes me as perfect. Lovely it is that there is nothing other than birches. Like it? Click to share, tweet and [...]  November 30, 2011 | Wordless Wednesday. Tony Cragg - sinuous and shiny
Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1502′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); November 24, 2011 | Pattern of the DAY Detail of door in Lalibela Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d1466′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); November 22, 2011 | St Catherine's Hill and St Cross The top of the hill was an Iron Age fort. Stand there and look around. The beech woods slide down the earthworks and delve you down into the valley of the river Itchen. Tributaries of chalk streams of the tickled brown trout and some of the best fly-fishing in England. Behind the hill the traffic [...] October 28, 2011 | And so to Columbine Hall. Tucked away in Suffolk behind rape fields and not far from ribbon development bungalows. The house takes its name not from the flower but by way of ancient association with the Norman family of de Columbers who owned the feudal manor in the 13C. Moated houses are common in this part of England but [...] October 20, 2011 | The best water features in Europe or even the world are to be found in the hills near Rome. For inspiration and ideas there are three gardens with which to cram a life-time of sketches and ideas. Particularly if you could step back in time and help yourself to the purse of a Cardinal. My three favourites are these: Diana of [...] September 11, 2011 | Do not throw stones: a love affair with Palm Houses In a new city, the beeline I make is to the Botanic Gardens. Once there the homing in is on the palm house. A building that smacks of such self confidence and an era when we were on the march upwards. In the 21st century with all the advances in construction technique and glass science, [...] August 20, 2010 | Ancestor Worships starts with Mordecai Cubitt Cooke We’d made a plan to go and look at some graves. A little eccentric perhaps. But in the spirit of humoring the quirks of others, I went along with it. It was my mother’s firm wish to visit the place that her father’s family had come from. And so we went to Norfolk. and [...] June 12, 2010 | Bird on Head series one: Robert Adam This is Edinburgh. Overwhelmingly grey but lovely. Scottish neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. Adam, not the seagull. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d483′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); May 20, 2010 | Pattern of the DAY early 14th century church roof Scissor-braced, seven-canted roof constructed round about 1330 at Westhall church, Suffolk. Like it? Click to share, tweet and save Hide Sites $$(‘div.d348′).each( function(e) { e.visualEffect(’slide_up’,{duration:0.5}) }); |
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