At home with dementia
Recently I was lucky to be able to attend the opening of the Building Research Establishment (BRE) new dementia home and exhibition. Based on evidence (as indicated in the exhibition poster photographed here), this carefully designed [...]
Two estates, two novels
There are two novels written about the estates we are thinking about in this post, as different in many ways as the estates themselves. The estates are very interrelated and mutually used but they are completely [...]
Red kites at home
I’ve been fascinated to watch the red kites creating their ‘home’ in a tree at the back of my garden. They are majestic birds, their vast wingspan soaring in rising air currents, looking strangely petite [...]
I love you will u marry me
Several years back I was listening to Radio 4 and by chance there was something on about Park Hill, an estate I had then recently visited because I was in Yorkshire. A man had called in [...]
Hospital to Home
In last month’s blog we went to Margate and that’s where we start again this month. Margate’s seaside heritage is exemplified by the Royal Sea Bathing Hospital built practically on the seafront in the 1790s, [...]
You can keep the Costa Brava
Just about every time I’ve been to Margate there’s been a dazzling blue sky and I asked if the golden sand was artificial – it isn’t. However my interest in this place didn’t stem from [...]