Ripple Effect

A journal of memories, impressions, ideas and mistakes.

Monday, November 22, 2010


Our digs in Frome, a 17th century publick house. My friend Jeff and I stayed here to celebrate our friend Jeremy's wedding last NYE to the lovely Penny. They postponed the wedding reception until Midsummer. Frome is a lovely town on the Avon (I am told "Avon" means "river," so to refer to the "river Avon" is redundant, redundant). Eminently walkable and very friendly, it was marred only by too many "To Let" signs along the main drag, indicative of our recent economic blitzkrieg.

But once in From, it is possible to get almost anywhere else you might possibly want to go:

Sunday, November 21, 2010


Edinburgh, Morita Art and Guesthouse. Caroline and I stayed here for two days with the delightful Kozo and John and their bizarrely wonderful collection of 19th Century Scottish ceramics - and very wonderful paintings, which covered every wall of every room.

My first post in this picture series was of old Edinburgh, and can be found further down. Today I present http://www.morita.co.uk/