4th July 2026 There’s a book within feminist/historicist Shakespeare Studies by Lisa Jardine called Still Harping on Daughters which continues to be successful and read. Me? I am a daughter who still harps on my father. Please forgive me if I collide with another book which is no-doubt called ‘Still Harping on Fathers’. It isContinue reading “Independence Day 2006: The Day We Buried My Father Part 1”
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Common Sense: the Fun Version
3/7/2026 – the brink of the 4th of July! Thetford, in Norfolk, is found at the meeting point of the River Thet and the Little Ouse, this oozy Ouse providing a boundary between Norfolk and Suffolk… It is also where a corset-maker and British thinker was born, who was to synthesize into words how AmericaContinue reading “Common Sense: the Fun Version”
‘Oh say can you hear?’ Fountain Memories and the Day my Father Died Part 1
25/6/2026 Dr. Eva Griffith It seems a while, and so much has happened, since remembering my father in Israel. But now a lot of water has flowed under London Bridge, and, indeed, round the straits of Hormuz. Let’s hope all that horror stops, and we can get Life back on an evening keel. My father,Continue reading “‘Oh say can you hear?’ Fountain Memories and the Day my Father Died Part 1”
Broken Waters on International Women’s Day (‘Measure for Measure’)
Anonymous, for Lemon Shakespeare, March 2026 On International Women’s Day, this writer felt she had a rough ride. On this day, a Sunday, a relative and I went to a café for a chat and ended up arguing over my experience of Life. When I brought up an assaulting incident culminating in a mutual friendContinue reading “Broken Waters on International Women’s Day (‘Measure for Measure’)”
The Wave In The Sky
The Wave in the Sky 22/3/2026 I went into the Samsung Palace the other day. You know, the big Wave in the Sky near Granary Square, King’s Cross. I had – would you believe it – a Samsung phone, which I had (by some good fortune at the time) LOST, or – more likely –Continue reading “The Wave In The Sky”
A is for Aude and a Cruel Tempest
21/2/2026 I was sitting in a café in France just a few days ago. There have been major rains here because of Storm Nils. Accompanied this time, I was studying property, as a friend is here who is an estate agent. For the ‘be prepared’ property seeker, I had come at the right time toContinue reading “A is for Aude and a Cruel Tempest”
Ice on the Ground
Somerset is underwater with Dorset little better; however in Minneapolis Ground Zero means ICE, with all eyes on the ground. On the ground where temperatures are well below zero, yet hundreds have gathered to query the ICE around them. Key cards are pedaling backwards as best as trumps can. When the rule of the dayContinue reading “Ice on the Ground”
Shoes before the Deity
More and more it seems hard to stay oneself. Surrounded by pressures and people who want you to hear what they think you should do, how you should be, Life becomes a comedy where you can’t tell the angels from the evil ones, because so much of Life is shadowed by strange hieroglyphs and hints.Continue reading “Shoes before the Deity”
For a limited time only…
Without Royal Collection images, as yet… but… Here is the first episode. ‘The Story of Queen Anna of Denmark – Episode One: Waiting for a Boat’ Starring Guy Henry as King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England too!) My research thanks for this are due to the British Library, the Institute ofContinue reading “For a limited time only…”
The XV Festival Internacional: Xardins de Allariz
As Europe burns, Spain displays an interesting international Garden Festival, with twelve gardens dedicated to discussing the subject of how we can look at Climate Change differently. This is not as as something simply depressing, but it seeks to see the situation as one which is an ‘opportunity for the garden’. It is, in urgentContinue reading “The XV Festival Internacional: Xardins de Allariz”