Thursday, 15 December 2016

Enchanted Winter

Winter by Boucher, 1735. Image: WGA

New audiobook published specially to cheer up the end of this year and celebrate the new:
AN ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS
an anthology of romantic Christmas themed stories
by Barbara Metzger, read by Pippa Rathborne

Available on Audible, Amazon and iTunes

 Ghosts, magic and mistletoe wreathe these stories about the redemptive powers of love and laughter.

This new selection of Barbara Metzger's shorter romantic comedies is read by Pippa Rathborne in a special Christmas audiobook, available now and in the New Year, to cast enchantment over the Brexit -Trump winter.

AN ENCHANTED CHRISTMAS

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Living under Democracy in USA and UK, 2016

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2016/11/20/living-under-democracy-in-usa-and-uk-2016/
Two Monkeys by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1562
Oil on oak panel, Staatliche Museen, Berlin. Image: WGA

Saturday, 19 November 2016

The Compelling Entertainment of Catastrophe

Sofa by the Spanish cartoon artist Ekhi-Guinea

GRABS POPCORN is how humanity self-medicated its way to disaster instead of getting off the sofa to resist and protest.


Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Friday, 1 July 2016

DOING THE MACARENA - TO CATASTROPHE

https://pipparathborne.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/doing-the-macarena-to-catastrophe/

THE FATE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM AFTER BREXIT VOTE

You have to remember one thing about the will of the people: it wasn't that long ago that we were swept away by the Macarena.
Jon Stewart

The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
T.H.White, The Once and Future King

Sunday, 8 May 2016

The Female Traveller

https://pipparathborneactress.wordpress.com/2015/12/06/a-womans-travels-with-tongue-in-cheek/
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) in Turkish dress by Liotard c. 1756, the Baths Palace, Warsaw

http://www.audible.com/pd/Travel-Adventure/The-Wrong-Shade-of-Yellow-Audiobook/B018WMF51Q

Thursday, 10 March 2016

All is Vanity

Forwarded from Pinterest: The New Yorker Cartoon by Alex Gregory and Conde Nast Published by Nelson Line www.nelsonline.com