Has your biro just burst in your handbag? What about splashing out on this as a replacement? This is a fountain pen from the pen people at Visconti. To mark the creation of Lo Scarabeo’s Visconti Sforza Tarot deck, they Read more…
Welcome to the Summer Solstice Blog Hop! If you have arrived here by happy accident and are intrigued by this Blog Hop thing, you can find out more about it here. If you’ve hopped here from Olivia’s blog (our wrangler Read more…
No, it’s not a trick question, but a genuine one because as of yesterday afternoon, I am guardian to a baby crow which is FAIRLY close to ‘black bin bag’ territory, if you catch my drift….. I was weeding in Read more…
We find ourselves in a kitchen where a young woman stretches out on a chair as the Tarot card reader explores her fortune. It’s funny, isn’t it? No matter how many centuries separate us, the pose for expansive day-dreaming remains Read more…
If a court card coming up in a Tarot reading can present a reader with a tummy-flipping moment of panic, then interpreting a reversed court card can engender a fully-fledged head-between-the-knees (your own, silly!) brace position. But it needn’t be Read more…
So, I’m out having a totally 3 of Cups moment with two girlfriends – celebrating my friend’s 60th birthday and having a jolly nice time at a discreet and ‘spensive restaurant. We are just perusing the extensive menu when I Read more…
Not done one of these for a while and thought that this one by The Beautiful South would be a great tune to jump-start things again. Having a think about the behaviour of characters in books and films can help Read more…
Another Renaissance deck for you to drool over! The majority of cards in this deck have been lost and the surviving cards – 16 Major Arcana cards and a Page of Swords – can be found in the Bibliotheque Nationale Read more…
I first fell under the spell of Salvador Dali via his magnificent Christ of St John which was bought (amidst great public hooha – petitions and irate letters to the newspapers) for Glasgow City Council’s Kelvingrove Museum in the 1950s. Read more…
From the workshop of Benifacio Benbo, Il Re di Coppe, Visconti Sforza Tarot Yeah, there’s so much of the figure missing that when I looked at this image I thought the King was actually lying in a box with only Read more…