“I’m happy quite a lot of the time. I’ve done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I’d be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.” – Robert Smith (lead member of The Cure from Blackpool) My husband and I planned to have our Christmas holiday in 2017 in the UK for the … Continue reading
“We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it” – John Lennon We visited … Continue reading
“Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.” – William Morris This UK trip will be one of our many upcoming UK trips in the future … Continue reading
“Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. ‘We the people’ affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.” – Banksy … Continue reading
“Know your own happiness. Want for nothing but patience — or give it a more fascinating name: Call it hope.” — Jane Austen (novelist from Bath, author of Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, etc.) Have you ever dreamed of something you want so bad and yet you thought it is just within your … Continue reading
“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.” – Beatrix Potter Ever seen the movie “The Holiday”? Iris’ (Kate Winslet) village was how I imagined Gloucesteshire to be – stone cottages, quaint shops and pubs, rolling hills and pristine meadows. Laurie has been showing me pictures before of how his hometown … Continue reading
