This is a picture drawn by Geoffrey Jarvis who I first met because my parents employed him as an architect…
Chairs and the habit of every surface being covered….
Anthony: Those two chairs Alison and I bought in Oxfordshire, maybe Gloucestershire around 1980 I can’t remember when. We were…
MAPS
Anthony : I’ve always enjoyed maps. My father introduced me to maps. Whenever we went up a hill in Scotland which…
The Ammonite Fossil that has ‘received’ Alison’s morning tea for decades
PICTURE TO BE ADDED The object today is a very fine Ammonite Fossil which has received my morning cup of…
Tanyrallt / Bryngwenallt and a trail of Pets (including ‘a brief dreadful episode with a lizard’…
Alison says…Well Mil I’m holding a lovely moon faced pewter plate which takes me right back to our life at…
TRINITY FWOOARR
Anthony – 1956, that’s my very first Spring there [Cambridge]. One has to earn an oar, one receives an oar if…
The story of Anthony’s ice making career
Anthony : The polar bear is just a folly. It’s the mascot or trademark of a Danish company called SABRO so…
Propelling Pencils
Anthony : My father always had a propelling pencil but he used it more for tamping down his pipe, so the…
The Long Vac, refugees, musicians & wonderfully comfortable Austrian glasses
Alison: Austrian or South German…. Did I go to refugee camps? I think I went with a group of people…
From conventional garb to ‘a sort of tabard thing like Bishops wear’ – Alison styles Anthony
Dressing a husband rather more interestingly that his standard office garb was a challenge of Alisons. She always commented how…
The Royal Collection 