There’s nothing like a dose of flu at the backend of winter to lay you low for longer than you’d like. Lying in bed makes for such empty days, even though you’re pretty much unconscious as to the passage of real time. Big decisions concern things like when and whether  to roll over on […]

When people Mary Fedden knew had babies, she made them little soft  lions as a present. I mentioned them here when I was saying how much I enjoyed reading Christopher Andrae’s Mary Fedden: Enigmas and Variations (Lund Humphries, pbk. 2014)  and I reproduced the 4 photographs of the soft toys that appeared in the book. Pat […]