My assistant Sandra agreed it was a good idea to publish my list of funeral songs. They were slightly obscure, she thought. This way my wishes might be remembered. We discussed it as we travelled by train to York. Gloom, exhaustion and snow made driving seem a bad idea. As we sped through the Fens [...]
The flight manager announced at the onset of our flight ‘The cabin crew call me the Duchess.’ The Duchess was busy all night, as we had a medical emergency in economy class. I couldn’t sleep, and exhaustion gave me morbid thoughts. When I got home I gave my daughter a list of songs required for [...]
The clay end is the area in a potbank or pottery where the clay is worked. Nothing at the clay end has been fired in a kiln. Men traditionally work in this section, and their work is often heavy and laborious. This is the name we chose to give to the mosaic element of the [...]
My 5 am start didn’t get me to York particularly early. There were a number of accidents on the A1, resulting in a diversion and a series of traffic jams . Miki Slingsby, my photographer, who is incidentally very congenial company and a man of infinite patience, set out considerably later and encountered no problems [...]