by David West | Oct 22, 2022 | News
As with yesterday’s post, I will focus on music in the life of Sir Anthony Standen. Broadly speaking I will cover the period 1547 to 1627, we do not know the exact dates, other than that his first job was as master of horse to Lord Darnley, when he travelled to...
by David West | Oct 21, 2022 | News
I posted yesterday about visiting The Courtauld Gallery. Whilst there I bought a book: Look at this if you love great art, by Chloë Ashby. Leafing through it has reminded me how often I have featured art in the Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. I’m not sure why, I just...
by David West | Oct 20, 2022 | News
We visited the Courtauld Gallery yesterday, where I stood admiring Manet’s painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, for some time. There is a glass on the counter. As I examined the glass more closely, I marvelled at the detail, how perfect the glass was, how it...
by David West | Oct 18, 2022 | News
Brevity is concise and exact use of words. According to a proverb, brevity is the soul of wit. Flash fiction should be a thousand words or less. An extreme version is the six word story, of which the best example I know is: For sale: baby shoes. Never worn. It has...
by David West | Oct 14, 2022 | News
Chekhov’s Gun is a writing principle which requires that if a gun is on display in act one, it must be used by act three. Claire and I were watching All Creatures Great and Small last night. Mrs Hall the housekeeper, played by Anna Madeley, left the veterinary...
by David West | Oct 13, 2022 | News
Freemasonry has always been largely about networking. Roberto Calvi rang a bell. He was an Italian banker found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in 1982, the year I graduated from Oxford. I remembered that there had been some great scandal but couldn’t remember much...
