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Beginnings and Endings

What we call the beginning is often the end And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. –Little Gidding from Four Quartets, […]

H is for… Harry Potter

It is now over 5 years since the last Harry Potter book was published but, if the queues at Kings Cross Station in London are anything to go by, his […]

Buskers in Barcelona

“Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of […]

Tea and Nonsense

“Take some more tea,” the March Hare said to Alice, very earnestly. “I’ve had nothing yet,” Alice replied in an offended tone, “so I can’t take more.” “You mean you […]

Bath’s Royal Crescent

Bath’s Royal Crescent is a street of 30 terraced houses laid out in a sweeping crescent.  It was designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774.  As one of the […]

African Water Lilies

Despite their name, water lilies are not related to the true lilies (family Liliaceae). The name “lily” is applied to a number of plants that are not at all closely […]