Tag: History
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Stars in their eyes
Back in 1642, a Dutch artist by the name of Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, now generally known as Rembrandt, completed his painting ‘The Night Watch’. A few years later, he created an etching of a night-time scene called ‘The Star of the Kings’, an etching he created to celebrate Epiphany. In England, and back in…
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A Different Shade of Blue
Hexadecimal colour code #001642. A slightly darker shade to Royal Blue (#002366), wouldn’t you know. Royal Blue, the colour, was created / blended / discovered in Somerset, England, after a nationwide challenge by King George III for clothiers from all over the kingdom to come up with a suitable colour fit for royalty, and in…
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Think BIG… Then bring it back!
When you look at an ant, busily scrambling along, toing and froing back and forth, industriously doing whatever it needs to do to make its living, you notice just how small it is. In noticing just how small the ant is, it makes you realise just how big you / we are in comparison. Then,…
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As rare as a Lincoln Biscuit
For weeks, I have been trying to remember something. Nothing of any major importance, just something of yesteryear that would not come to mind. Suddenly, tonight, it did. The Lincoln Biscuit. Gone, but not forgotten. Although, if it had been ‘not forgotten’, I wouldn’t have spent the last few weeks trying to remember what it…
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The Lady, Emeralda
Visitors to the mansion seem to know folk they’ve never met…Dogs and cats stay outside as soon as the sun has set…Some say the chains that rattle belonged to Lady Smart…Others state the shrieks and cries belong to her ‘in part’…Guests who stay within the lodge see a figure dressed in green…Passers by see lights…
Tom
The Mansionic Perspective 