The Stuff Curator
I am a lover all things, a "stuffophiliac", as it is stuff that makes up the warp and weft of our world. All that we touch, covet, use and choose tells us about who we are and were. It is the tangible...
View ArticleThe Christmas Party
Our modern day equivalent of a Pagan mid-winter celebration, eating drinking and being merry being an ancient and honourable custom, as is sending the past year out with copious amounts of misrule and...
View ArticleTomb of the Unknown Housewife
Sleeping Angel Highgate cemeteryI work as a curator, my job deals with telling the stories associated with our nation’s history. From a woman’s point of view it can sometimes be a skewed story, mainly...
View ArticleA story for Halloween
TRINITYAlthough it was only about four on a late autumn afternoon, a stormy black sky had already blocked out the last pale shafts from the sun. The scrubby land on the barren peninsula was lit only by...
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The Liverpool Adelphi Hotel Orchestra 1914I was staying at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool, a grand Victorian railway hotel, which architecturally claimed the pretensions of any international hotel...
View ArticlePilgrims Way
Aylesford Carmelite Priory entranceWhan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour;...
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