“None love, but they who wish to love” – Jean Baptiste Racine It is Jean Baptiste Racine's (French playwright - 1639) and Giacomo Pucci...

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” - Harriet van Horne The closer it gets to Christmas, the more ...

“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.” - Sam Llewelyn The masdevallia orchid , Masdevallia coccinea , is...

"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell." - Joan Crawford To love ...

“Age does not protect you from love, but love to some extent protects you from age.” – Jeanne Moreau Very close to where we live there is a...

“Whenever monarchs err, the people are punished.” – Horace We watched the Stephen Frears 2006 film “The Queen” with Helen Mirren, yesterday...

“England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.” George Santayana Today is a noteworthy da...

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy How easy it is to destroy, how difficult to crea...

“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your fri...

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” Robert Heinlein. December 13th is the Feast Day ...

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.” - Elie Wiesel A poem written quite a few years ago, ...

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them. - Anatole France I have been very busy in my spare time l...

"A converted cannibal is one who, on Friday, eats only fishermen." - Emily Lotney We watched a delightful German movie yesterday a...

Fishy Fishy Fishy, Fishy in the Creek, Come a-swimming quick, quick, quick, Daddy's been fishing all the day While you been swimming the...

Extract from: Lost in Translation Out of the blue, as promised, of a New York Puzzle-rental shop the puzzle comes — A superior one, containi...

“… Look deep into my eyes, dear Bride, and see what you have not yet seen. For a stranger I have become, and a stranger I am indeed. The one...

The Hateful Colour I'd like to go out into the world, Out into the wide world; If only it weren't so green, so green, Out there in t...

The Sick Rose O Rose thou art sick. The invisible worm. That flies in the night In the howling storm: Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy...

“The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.” - James Allen I keep a “visual diary” and have done so for several years; I have...

“I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.” - Johann Sebastian Bach Today I shall let two great musicia...