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Kathleen’s war
This week’s guest blogger is my mother Kathleen Walker who passed away in December 2016. One of the things she left for me was a school exercise book containing a short memoir in 22 pages covering her...
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Wartime paintings
This post is a kind of loose follow-up to the last one and also ties up with Westminster City Archives’ recent posts about wartime paintings. I’ve collected pictures by Josephine “Jo” Oakman, and...
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Pictures of the lockdown: Chelsea
Now that some of the restrictions of lockdown are being relaxed, is it over? Near where I live there seem to be more people on the street, so has the empty city passed into history? Probably not quite...
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Quiet days: reading and sleeping
Quiet days on your own, or with close family. If you’re like me you’ve turned to books you’ve loved in the past. Sit quietly in a garden in a sheltered spot. After breakfast, or in the late...
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Pictures of the lockdown – South Kensington
You know those moments that come from time to time when you realise that the narrative has changed and that we’re not in a post war realistic novelist’s universe any more? That science fiction is...
View ArticleAfter a short pause
So I’m in this room, which has a prefabricated wall and door. It used to be a cubicle I suppose. I’ve had a number of injections, they’ve taken blood I think, and I’m on oxygen. People come and go. I...
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Ghosts of 1923
A little bit more than a short pause I suppose. But I had to get back on the horse eventually, and now I have a bit of a breathing space, This post is one I started last year, with every intention...
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Blog extra: more Ghosts
In the end I was in a bit of a hurry when I posted Ghosts of 1923 (Isabel lit a fire under me to get me moving), and a bit rusty when it came to using WordPress so I missed the best “ghost” picture’....
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Our Covid story
I don’t want to go on ann on about Covid as I last mentioned it a couple of posts ago. Nearly a year ago. But for me, this is an anniversary story , a tale from the pre-vaccine, pre-omicron era, when...
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Twigs and paintings
Honestly, I am working on a proper post, but this little idea came up when I was transferring pictures from my phone to my laptop. Our flat overlooks a communal garden. Before the latest batch of...
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