mrs miniver's daughter

Larkspur, August 1914, Charles Rennie Mackintosh Can you spot the tiny birds hidden in the painting? This is one of the flower paintings...

There was a library sale this afternoon and I picked up a rather battered copy of The Man Who Loved Children for 25p. Then, when I got ho...

The trouble with Bridge of Spies is that it's just so American and Tom Hanks is just so - decent. It's a cracking true story - a...

I loved The Hare with Amber Eyes , read it twice and spent an afternoon in Paris walking the course. So I was looking forward to Edmund ...

After such a sombre week, it was lovely to enjoy an evening full of joie de vivre at Richmond Theatre.  (Which is lovely, anyway, as I al...

There's some exquisite objects in the V&A's Bejewelled Treasures exhibition but it does feel rather like a very slick PR...

I take a bus to the cinema, not a train. I go on my own, then do my shopping on the way home. And as I emerged from this nice, old-fashi...