Happy Easter!
Wishing all my readers a very happy and sunshiny Easter 2019! And I leave you with the ‘most famous’ hare …
vintage stationery
Feel the love 2
I hope you’ll all be ‘in luck‘ not just on this year’s Valentine’s Day! Without further ado, here are some …
Feel the love 1
A confession: I never received a Valentine card before I moved to England. Valentine’s Day has only become popular (read: …
Happy New Year!
Hope you had a good start to 2019 – and that all your hopes and wishes get fulfilled!
Have a good one
My very best wishes to all of my readers – have a wonderful time whatever you do! If it gets …
What were they thinking?
A few curios from my collection – I wonder who came up with these ideas and who said : ‘yes, …
Advent
Oh, the joy of happy anticipation of Christmas! Something of a luxury these days… The time before Christmas seems to …
Spectres
Halloween is coming! If you’d like to see ghosts without any danger attached, here’s the book for you: ‘Spectropia, or …
Variations on a tale
“She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding-Hood, I should have known …
Are you feline lucky?
Excuse the pun – I couldn’t resist! There’s not only the international ‘Black Cat Appreciation Day’ (always in August) but …
Games without Frontiers
Spiel ohne Grenzen, Jeux Sans Frontieres, It’s a Knockout… Apparently the French title was the inspiration for the song “Games without …
London Ephemera
I love getting holiday postcards from friends & family! And I used to love sending them, but more and more …
Tales of Wonder
Luck or Fate would have it that I noticed and was able to attend an illustrated lecture by Jack Zipes …
Party time!
At last, the days and evenings are becoming warmer – and Summer time means Party time, don’t you think? So, …
