It was chillingly unnerving watching Robert Harris backing himself into a corner on the Marr show. From his point of view he was fortunate that having put him in the corner Marr let him wander out again . He does that too often . The question was would Robert Harris ever work with Roman Polanski…
because one morning of heat I drew up there , unexpectedly ……to find I was visiting the place where Edward Thomas had lived – and his death in France is remembered . A glorious day in quintessentially English Countryside . The rolling wooded , green shapes of the Hangars before us , A gentle…
Improbably , Handel and Hendrix lived in the same house in Mayfair – obviously separated by a couple of floors and two hundred years or so The music Hendrix was listening to at the time is on display – some eclectic choices . Handel seems to have taken his music with him .
A tweet (Sir Edward Davenant) about a painting at which I look every day . Always fascinated by how the people are together but apart
………..almost without realising I had filled the place with mid century classics
A trip to the Design Museum revealed bikes as Design Icons rather than machines for high performance , or in the case of the Moulton an exercise in quirky British innovation The Moulton brought back memories . My father always aspired to own one , but motivated by a keen sense of value bought instead…
