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Our Bodies Their Battlefield – what war does to women – and – Alison Lochhead

10/12/2021 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

You might well hesitate before buying this book. I would not blame you. I did - but I did end up by buying it. It is not a comfortable read. To be honest, it is gruelling read although the reporting is so sensitive and so beautifully phrased that there is an almost guilty …

Category: Art, Rape, WarTag: Alison Lochhead, Alison Lochhead sculptor, Christina Lamb, Christina Lamb at the Sunday Times, Genocide through rape, men in conflict areas experience sexual violence, Our Bodies Their Battlefields, rape as a war crime, rape as a weapon of war, rape of the Yazidi girls, Rwandan genocide

The latest addition….

21/11/2020 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  8 Comments

Everyone knows about my earring collection – both gathered together over the years and donated  by friends from all over the world. It now adorns lampshades around my living room. But I am delighted to say that earrings are the gift that goes on giving and I have now moved …

Category: Art, FreeFrom AwardsTag: earrings, earrings on lampshades, FreeFrom Food Awards, FreeFrom Food Awards judges, FreeFrom Food Awards sponsors, Michelle's earring collection, The Pasta Jeweller

The pasta jeweller

07/11/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  10 Comments

As many of you will know who have visited Lawn Road, I collect earrings, many of which flaunt themselves on a couple of lampshades in the drawing room. Knowing I collect them, friends seek out weird and wonderful creations to add to my collection in an attempt to upstage …

Category: ArtTag: Alex Gazzola, Alex Gazzola at Allergy Insight, earring collections, earrings, farfalle pasta, freefrom pasta, FreeFrom Skincare Awards

Leonardo at the Queen’s Gallery

25/07/2019 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

This is far too amazing an exhibition for me to even think of trying to describe it – so I will just urge anyone who is likely to be in London between now and the end of October to put it on their itinerary. (Please excuse the quality of the images which often include the …

Category: ArtTag: Charles 11 as an art collector, Leonardo - mortars firing into a fortress, Leonardo at the Queen's Gallergy, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo designs for firearms, Leonardo's anatomical studies, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci and A Memory of His Childhood, Wellington Barracks

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