Category: Life
Winter # 3 – The Quietly Beating Heart
Here and there amidst the silver bare winter’s landscape are vibrant reminders that the pulse of life continues through even the darkest days and the longest nights. The berries in the hedgerows and the hips of the roses are rich and blood red with the promise of Spring…….. ALL PHOTOS © JANE MORLEY
Vintage Childhood #2 – Dinkys, Corgis & Lesneys
A small homage to the vintage childhood when imagination was more valued than the microchip. Once long ago , before the invention of iPods and iPads and SuperMario Game Boys and Nintendos, my younger brother received for his birthday a very fine model garage. It’s most distinguished attribute was a state of the art toy…
Chopin, Nocturnes, Sheet Music and the Brownies
As a small child I was encouraged by my mother to join the Brownies, an institution she had relished so much in her own childhood that she had gone on to be a Girl Guide and the veteran of many a Brownie and Girl Guide camping expedition. At the time as a seven year old…
Cinderella Girl – Part 2
Even as a small child I was never very comfortable wearing traditional girlie costume of ribbons, frills and dresses. A pair of trousers and boots was always much more my style and has remained so ever since with one or two notable exceptions. As a student I collected all sorts of vintage items, amongst which…
Of Sunflowers, Kites and Kestrels….
In which we bang on about the weather again but for a different reason and then turn a little serious………….. I have always had the fanciful notion that the weather here on earth is largely dictated by the activities of the Olympian Gods up in the clouds. Right at this moment in time , they’re…
Oh No! It’s Holiday time on the Hillside
In which we consider the impending onslaught of summer visitors and wonder whether a person could have opening and closing times like a boutique. Well it’s that time of year again here on the hillside, the friends and family start their mass migration to foreign climes passing where possible by our front door for a…
Homely Things #3 – Linen and Lavender
IMAGES OF THINGS THAT SPEAK OF HOME………. Despite being a rubbish cook and one of the most disorganised people I can think of, I am at heart a serious home-bird. My nest is not necessarily a very tidy one and the performance of household chores ranks on my enjoyment scale somewhere alongside cleaning out the…
Homely things #1 – Baking and Eggs
Images of Things that speak of Home………. As someone who is not overly gifted in the art of cooking – let’s be honest, a slice of bread in a toaster runs the risk of total annihilation at my hands – I take a surprising pleasure in the process of baking. I still have my occasional…
The Ethereal Veil……..
“Life’s splendour forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its’ fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its’ right name, it will come…” FRANZ KAFKA ALL PHOTOS © JANE…
View from a French Hillside 