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to market
[Royan market] It turns out that my predilection for markets has not gone unnoticed by my family. When I asked Alice for a suggestion for this week’s…
Mar 24
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Jane Brocket
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box of delights
I would like to get a bigger desk with enough space on top to accommodate my ability to both spread out and create piles, and enough space underneath…
Mar 17
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Jane Brocket
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back soon
No newsletter this week, but I’ll be back soon. Happy Sunday!
Mar 10
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Jane Brocket
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wonderful copenhagen
What should you do when given 72 hours in Copenhagen? [Wilhem Marstrand, 1836] Danish art, especially knitters with attitude (not sentimentality…
Mar 3
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Jane Brocket
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February 2024
pause
[‘Le Printemps’ 1886), Monet, which is up the road in the Fitzwilliam] I studied The Cherry Orchard for ‘A’ level Russian, and encountered the…
Feb 25
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Jane Brocket
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14th February
February 14th is not Valentine’s Day for us. It is Tom and Alice’s birthday. Have I told you the story of how I came to have boy/girl twins on the 14th…
Feb 18
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Jane Brocket
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the rain it raineth a lot
It’s been cold and rainy, rainy and cold. [‘Etretat in the Rain’ (1886), Claude Monet] With good timing, though I say so myself, I’m reading the…
Feb 11
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Jane Brocket
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daily bread
[‘The Basket of Bread’ (1914), Raoul Dufy] I may just have a thing about bread. I consume it, and it consumes me. Barely a day goes by without eating…
Feb 4
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Jane Brocket
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January 2024
going for cold
I hate being cold. Yet here I am in Norway, in January. [Finse station, 1222m above sea level, truly in the middle of snowy nowhere] This is the first…
Jan 28
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Jane Brocket
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sew long
[Kaffe Fassett for Burton Agnes Hall] I am hopelessly fascinated by needlepoint. Mostly when stitched by other people. This week I wrote about…
Jan 21
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Jane Brocket
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checks
I’m a huge fan of Hockney’s portraits. I particularly like the exquisitely fine and delicate ones of friends and family done in coloured pencils in the…
Jan 14
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Jane Brocket
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a look on the bright side
[on the bright side, April 2023] A tad later than planned, thanks to Covid, but here are some of the things which featured on the bright side of 2023…
Jan 7
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Jane Brocket
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