It seems to have got to the middle of the year without me really knowing how...The picture on the left is the remains of the staircase at the fantastic Seaton Delaval Hall in Northumbria, a crumbling stately home designed by John Vanbrugh and recently bought for the nation by the National Trust. It has only been open to the public since the beginning of May and it is a photographer's delight. This is actually the underneath of the staircase, looking up... I love the Ecsher effect which just disorientates you completely so after a while you don't know if you are looking up or down.
And yes, at the moment life's a bit like that. It's reached the time of the year when I seem to be zooming around but getting nowhere fast! The half term holiday brought a weekend in York and a few ballet jaunts to Durham, a frantic dash to buy a ukulele and get it wrapped in time for a birthday brunch, a reunion with my university soul-mates which involved some very late nights and some very VERY wicked food!!! I fear I fell off the wagon most spectacularly last week- or more correctly, off the cake trolley! And the scones at the Blaksmiths' coffee shop in Blagdon remain the finest known to humanity! As for the chocolate brownie with gooseberries in Oldfields of Durham...well, let's just say it was very close to perfection!
It might be wisest, on the whole, not to ask about my writing progress...
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