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  • A Walk in the Front Garden

    A Walk in the Front Garden

    In this final part of A Walk in the Garden, I’m taking you into the front garden. Enjoy the roses, Japanese anemone, coral bells and other plants that catch the eye of the passers-by.

  • A Walk in the Garden, part 2

    A Walk in the Garden, part 2

    The second part of a walk in the garden takes us further back, introducing various garden features, some more plants and the willow whose days are sadly numbered.

  • A Walk in the Garden

    A Walk in the Garden

    Take a walk with me through our Berlin garden. There’s much to see at this time of year. The richness of Autumn is palpable, one of my favourite times of year.

  • No Time to Grieve

    No Time to Grieve

    My 2x great grandmother suffered untold loss in her life. Of 13 children, 7 died young. She had no time to grieve one before becoming pregnant with the next.

  • peacock

    peacock

    20 x 20 cm, acrylic on canvas, sold

  • K is for Killing

    K is for Killing

    What happened exactly on the night of the killing? I put together the story through newspaper reports because the court records are closed till 2060.

  • I is for Irene – The wife that got away

    I is for Irene – The wife that got away

    Len’s first wife, Irene, married him during his war service. But she met someone else and they divorced when he returned.

  • G is for Germany

    G is for Germany

    Germany was still occupied when I came to West Berlin, twenty-five years after Len went back to England and killed Libeth. But did he go back with Dinah?

  • F is for Femicide

    F is for Femicide

    Was the killing of Lisbeth femicide? The media gave the impression that Len was a devoted father who acted under provocation.

  • Maria Joy, 1843-1894

    Paternal 2nd great-Grandmother Maria was born in 1843 in Tottenham, Middlesex, to William and Maria, their first child. William was from Sandgate, a village near Folkestone, Kent, Maria was a Londoner. He was working as a gardener in Tottenham when they married and Maria had been working in Gray’s Inn as a dressmaker. It was…