by budedawnadmin | Jun 24, 2023 | article
“You may have the universe, if I may have Italy.” – Guiseppe Verdi From the dazzling but functional gleaming white washing-machines adorning the balconies of small suburban apartments, to Michelangelo’s hugely sublime pristine white...
by budedawnadmin | Jun 17, 2023 | article
In 2015/16, I lost nine people from my life, from my big brother to my good friend’s daughter, and many friends somewhere in between, some close. People asked how I coped. My answer probably came across as flippant but wasn’t meant that way: “Well,...
by budedawnadmin | Oct 3, 2021 | article, book, Pamela Colman Smith
As any reader of my book will know, Parc Garland on The Lizard, was the home of Pamela Colman Smith for around 20 years. When I first visited, it was dilapidated but also a creamy buttermilk colour, rather striking, but never seen by Cornwall Council as an house of...
by budedawnadmin | Oct 4, 2020 | article
The reviews are quite an interesting mix, some positive, some less so. It strikes me that people review books based upon their personal preferences and I thank everyone who has taken the time to review my book publicly because it helps others to decide whether it is...
by budedawnadmin | Jul 4, 2020 | article
During the Covid-19 ‘lockdown’, you could say I have been content. I haven’t written much but I have also had no real demands on my time to concern myself with, other than freelance work, of course. ‘Content’ is not a word I usually associate...
by budedawnadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | article
Here’s one written when my mother was still alive and which I’ve since updated …the experience I describe here became a distant memory as my mother’s vascular dementia progressed. Dementia is a demon who created a woman I disliked, dreaded seeing, but felt...
