For my birthday this year, my partner gave me this painting. It’s an image of where we live – a hilltop village in the Pennines surrounded by a wooded valley – and he’d commissioned our artist friend Kate to paint it. To receive something so beautifully crafted, and given with such thoughtful care, was deeply [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Gift
Posted in creativity on September 21, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The Art of Washing Up
Posted in creative habit on September 8, 2009 |
When we moved house, six years ago now, we asked for the dishwasher to be taken out. Some people were bemused by this (how usual is it, after all, to have a dishwasher removed from a kitchen?). Others were quietly impressed by what they saw as our eco-credentials. I’m not geeky enough to know whether [...]
Beginnings
Posted in beginnings on September 1, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I was at school, September meant a new pencil case. It sent me rooting in the cupboard under the stairs for whatever scraps of wallpaper my Dad could spare to back my exercise books. Clean pages, white space; new possibilities. For years, working in higher education, I retained that feeling of September newness, of [...]
