Moments that Eased Two Horrors of Paris.

Over the years I have learned how to get round large areas of central Paris. My introduction started sixty years ago when Rohan was a student of philosophy at the Sorbonne, and I a medical student in London, and I would go to visit her. When there, she showed me her favourite haunts, and of…

Blackbirds with Influence

This is the story of four blackbirds who share our lives in Richmond. One was the source of conflict; two helped resolve the difference; the fourth was a present given to mark the resolution. The conflict, which although important to me may well appear to others as trivial, centred around a full-sized painting of a…