'We were going to change everything, of course, but mostly we were going to change the rules.'

'I was overwhelmed by a shock of breathless delight at the originality and beauty of the interior.'

'Tea. Both soothing and uplifting, a salve and a sharpener, the morning jolt and the evening's end.'

'There is a wonderfully exquisite/uber-kitsch Egyptian escalator at the centre of the building.'

'Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities; that of race and that of soul.'

'There are no strangers here, only friends you haven't yet met.'

'I went to Cork and stood on the dock some of my ancestors left from. I felt their ghosts...'

'Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey.'

'I chose this valley, said the tree to the wall; stretching my roots under your scored foundations.'

'I want to flit my eyes like skipping feet over red-top tiny crooked houses, down tiny crooked lanes

'I love the drive from York to Whitby over the moors - one of the great journeys, in my book.'

'Travel far and wide and you should possess the secrets of man'

'Nothing ventured, nothing gained'

Happy New Year

Fairy lights on Winter nights

'The Thames is liquid history'

'We all have a dinosaur within us just trying to get out.'

Merry Christmas

Out at last!

Arrived - safe and sound....