Light, Bright, and Sparkling

 "Mrs. Elton was neither handsome, clever, nor rich" - from In Defense of Mrs. Elton  by Diana Birchall,   illustrations by Julie...

Flowers at Chawton, 1985 It was as long ago as 1984 that I first attempted to write in imitation of Jane Austen's "voice" (w...

Friends' Meeting House, St. Giles, Oxford Saturday, July 23 To my surprise, I slept like a top in the Cornish Riviera sleeper train. ...

Samson, Scilly's largest uninhabited island Thursday, July 21 – At last, a fully, brilliantly sunny day, the first and most beautiful...