I’m trawling Rightmove, as usual. I have to say that Nottinghamshire isn’t currently serving up the most inspiring housing stock in my price range. Cities built in the Industrial Revolution and battered by WW2 bombs or unsightly ring roads don’t tend to have an abundance of bucolic charm. I divert my search to Herefordshire, or Suffolk, or the Highlands and Islands. I over-dramatically lament. But as a Midlander born and bred I am allowed to being impishly mean, because hidden in my local landsc

In 2013 The Hayward Gallery held an exhibition called Light Show, a compendium of artists working with light. Light projected, light beamed, light you could bathe in. One work in particular has left an afterglow on the back of eyelids ever since, a series of interconnected rooms, each one lit in a pure hue of a different colour.

Whenever Blue sends me an article, it fills my heart with joy. Blue is one of those rare people who cultivates the odd, the creative, and th