News from The Villa

How do you decide what colour to paint a wall? When we were buying our lovely home, Philip asked us to pick one colour—our base colour—and he would paint all the walls the same. We landed on Repose Grey, a rather lovely shade, which we have used as our base for matching other things. But…

I guess we’re not friends

I wonder how Americans, and the USA government would react if another country’s leader announced that they were taking part of their territory, or were going to bring economic pressure to bear? I mean we are used to seeing governments do this to countries, like Russia who invaded Crimea and then Ukraine, or to Iran…

Texting!

I was having a text chat lately – one of those odd new trends in my life and I suspect in many other people’s lives. We COULD phone each other….we’re both holding our phones, and it would cost us no more than texting, but somehow, we continue to pound out on our glass screens tiny…