Family reunited

I have had this trio of Georgian prints for sometime but have never been able to find a suitable spot for the three of them (adding a simple nail to any wall in my house requires a power tool and a very steady firm hand, which I don’t have). The lady of the family has therefore been sadly estranged and mostly forgotten about until recently when after painting a utility room I discovered that I had three existing nails to work with! Voila! Family reunited (at least I think they are a family). The prints were purchased together in the same battered gilt frames that work beautifully with the teal of the paint. I just wonder who they were.




It is almost a year since I hung up my white (well not so white) lab coat to establish my vintage interiors business. I miss the day job in many ways, especially the lovely people that I have met along the way but I don’t miss the long commute. I also now have the much needed time to give my home a huge makeover. I have been battling with the different style possibilities for far too long (I love them all) and as much as I love the idea of living with minimalism and white walls and furniture a plenty (well not so plentiful), a look that always looks fabulous in the glossy magazines I do have a passion for colour, the trouble is there are just so many to choose from!

I adore greens and blue...a strong reminder of my other world.  Please enjoy a glimpse of my previous life  while I, in the words of Loyd Grossman, ruminate and cogitate a little longer over colour and Interior style possibilities.

Highly motile cyanobacteria and why the photograph is slightly blurred .

Poles apart from the world of vintage interiors......the fascinating and beautiful micro-world! I wonder if our paths will ever cross again? The images show free-living cyanobacteria, often called blue-green algae and are widely distributed on land and in water and perform plant-like photosynthesis. They are very environmentally significant.

The beautiful multicellular Anabaena~each cell interconnected just like beads on a string.