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…

Can you be cynically healthy?

I’ve been batting this one around in my own thoughts…is it okay to be cynical? Is there anything wrong with this? Can one be cynically healthy? I “googled” cynicism and got these quotes (and a few more): “Cynicism (Kυνισμός) was originally the philosophy of a group of ancient Greeks called the Cynics, founded by Antisthenes….

No regrets

Regret…I’ve been thinking about this lately. Not that I have many regrets, but I have some that’s for sure. In fact I suspect most of us do. If I was to make it list I suppose it might look like this: But most of my life, and the important decisions of my life carry no…