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But Nota Bene Dear Reader: this blog is NOT limited to my recipe and restaurant ramblings alone! I shall also take it upon myself to decribe my various other encounters and experiences in this wonderful world we all share. Expect recommendations of excellent service received, for example, and lively discussions on a variety of exhilerating sublects like as Fashion, Art, Education, Religion and Fitness my word. Not forgetting my regular Favourite Albums of the Month / Year feature. Are you ready? Then enter Freunde, Étranger, Stranger…
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Paolo and Francesca – The Wallace Collection, London
On the first weekend in May, Cedric, Nick and I visited The Wallace Collection to round off a happy weekend in London. Like many museums in London, The Wallace Collection is free and very much worth a visit. Once again, I had the delight of finally seeing in person...
Three Favourites – July Edition
Three Favourites are here again. See below three albums covers that have tickled me rather as the month has progressed. Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath (1980) There has been a lot of religious art on this blog recently but sometimes it pays to be slightly irreverent....
John Everett Millais Dew-Drenched Furze
Millais was one of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood's founding fathers. Ophelia is his most famous painting. Through Charlotte, I have come to love the Pre Raphs' paintings, style and unique voice. The below is no exception. I was particularly moved by the below when I...
Basilica of Saint Martin, Tours
Martin of Tours, also known as Martin the Merciful, was the third bishop of Tours in 371 AD. He has been heralded as the patron saint of the Third Republic of France. The basilica itself was consecrated some 100 years after his appointment, in 471 AD. It began as a...
Sabotage, Black Sabbath – AOTM June 2022
Sabotage was Brummie band Black Sabbath's sixth studio album, released in 1975. This was written at a difficult time for the band, who were fighting a legal battle with their former management who were keeping their earnings from them. The album follows some of the...
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art – John Keats
One of Keats' last poems tells the tale of his doomed love for Fanny Brawne. Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,...