Have you ever wanted to learn how to sew your own clothes?
What stopped you?
Or, if nothing stopped you, have you got any tips for beginners?
Justice or Mercy? Flattery or Warts?
Have you ever had your portrait painted (or drawn, sculpted etc)? Where do you fall on the Cromwell-Hughes spectrum?
“Mr. Lely, I desire you would use all your skill to paint my picture truly like me, and not flatter me at all; but remark all these roughnesses, pimples, warts, and everything as you see me, otherwise I will never pay a farthing for it.”
Oliver Cromwell
“When having my portrait painted I don’t want justice, I want mercy.”
Billy Hughes
To Stair or Not to Stair?
If you could choose between living in a house with stairs and a house without, which would you choose – and why?