Category: Of interest

  • At the beach

    I could have spent yesterday, lunch time, thinking of a post for today. Instead, I went to the beach. Now I know why seagulls hang out there. The sand is warm, the wind is from either Africa or the South Pole, the waves are hypnotic. Bliss.

  • Gone Visiting!

    A little bit later today (timezone challenges, don’t you love them?) I’ll be visiting AmyBeth Inverness who is asking questions. I love questions. I adore filling in forms. Be sure to visit, AmyBeth is lovely. Pont Argentuil by Claude Monet. Not for any particular reason, just summer arriving.

  • Royal Albert Hall

    I thought the Royal Albert Hall would be a nice follow on to yesterday’s post on 1890s music. If you click here, you can read its history and take a virtual tour. I adore virtual tours, lazy traveller that I am 🙂

  • Teapots

    Afternoon tea is such a civilised steampunkish thing to do. Bygone Beautys is the world’s largest collection of teapots and it’s here in Australia — we take our tea seriously!

  • Things I don’t miss

    I couldn’t think of a post, today. So in a sort of mangled, count your blessings approach, I thought I’d list three things I don’t miss. 1. When people mourn the rise of ebooks and the decline of paper ones, they often mention the loss of the sensory experience. The smell, the touch, the tangible…