Kirsty Stonell Walker

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• Tuesday 17th December - A Random Shot

  

  Flipping heck, I've got an awful one for you today, so I'll try and put off the inevitable for as long as I can. So how are you all? Well I hope, and not at... Read more

  Posted on 17 December 2019 CULTURE

• Monday 16th December - J P Inverarity Mauled by a Lioness

  

  Blimey, we really are cracking on with the month as I am now in the last week of term and I still have a lot of Christmas cooking to do. Read more

  Posted on 16 December 2019 CULTURE

• Sunday 15th December - Burial of Lady Jane Swinburne

  

  There are certain paintings that I end up thinking 'well, that's a tad niche', and today's painting is a case in point...Burial of Lady Jane Swinburne (c. Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2019 CULTURE

• Saturday 14th December - The Old Master

  

  Blimey, in ten days it will be Christmas Eve! Where has the month gone? Time flies when you're, well, obviously not having fun, maybe sobbing so much your face... Read more

  Posted on 14 December 2019 CULTURE

• Friday 13th December - A Coronach in the Backwoods

  

  Oh Lordy, it's Friday 13th, which does not bode well but might be just what we need for Sobvent. Nothing like being unlucky and miserable, which leads me to... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2019 CULTURE

• Thursday 12th December - The Alarm

  

  If you have read my blog over the years, you will know I have a soft spot for Victorian depictions of the English Civil War, which is why I am delighted to brin... Read more

  Posted on 12 December 2019 CULTURE

• Wednesday 11th December - Dying Birds

  

  Things ended on a rather positive note yesterday, which was nice. Shall we crack on with today...?Dying Birds (1874) Eloise Harriet StannardFor goodness sake.... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2019 CULTURE

• Tuesday 10th December - Home from the Sea

  

  After all the sadness of lost loves and bladder stones yesterday, I thought I'd move the scene outdoors today...Home from Sea (1857) Arthur HughesThis is... Read more

  Posted on 10 December 2019 CULTURE

• Monday 9th December - Recalling the Past

  

  A new week and yet more misery to be uncovered! Such a jolly prospect, certainly enough to keep us going as we write our Christmas cards. Who is this card... Read more

  Posted on 09 December 2019 CULTURE

• Sunday 8th December - Her First Place

  

  I hope everyone has a nice quiet Sunday and can re-hydrate from all the sobbing we've been doing so far this week. Talking of which...The First Place (1860)... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2019 CULTURE

• Saturday 7th December - The Death of Albine

  

  Well, we have staggered into the first weekend of Sobvent and that's one week done. Hopefully no-one has sobbed up their spleen yet because we still have a... Read more

  Posted on 07 December 2019 CULTURE

• Friday 6th December - End of Her Journey

  

  When I left the house yesterday morning to go to work it was -1 degrees. This morning it was a fairly tropical 11 degrees which is absolutely ridiculous, and... Read more

  Posted on 06 December 2019 CULTURE

• Thursday 5th December - His First Grief

  

  Well, fourteen years ago I was not having a very good time because I had been in labour for 18 hours by this point and would have about another 14 to go (but... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2019 CULTURE

• Wednesday 4th December - Poor Fauvette

  

  I am up far too early this morning but there is a lot going on right now and when I wake up, then that's it, I might as well get up and get on with the day. So... Read more

  Posted on 04 December 2019 CULTURE

• Tuesday 3rd December - One for Sorrow

  

  Well, we are but a couple of days into Sobvent and already I am feeling miserable. I have a latent chest infection which has the faint promise of consumption... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2019 CULTURE

• Monday 2nd December

  

  Flipping heck, it is cold this morning! I was scraping the ice off the windscreen of the Walker-mobile shrieking as my fingers were ice-burned by the flying... Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2019 CULTURE

• Sunday 1st December - Despair

  

  Hello, my lovely readers and welcome to this years Blogvent or as it shall be known this time round...Sobvent!I regret nothing. Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2019 CULTURE

• Pre-Raphaelite Women (with an Emphasis on the 'men')

  

  That sound, my gentle readers, is the repeated bang of my head against the desk. I should have seen it coming, yet I was still rather surprised when, at the... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2019 CULTURE

• National Poetry Day 2019: On a Portrait

  

  Happy National Poetry Day to you all. I am in the midst of book-writing and so I bring you a poem by Julia Margaret Cameron on the beauty of a portrait... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2019 CULTURE

• Shhh! Happens

  

  Today's post is about one of my favourite things. I have a hypersensitivity to sound and so I retreat into silence whenever I can. Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2019 CULTURE