Entries by Theresa Sjoquist

Review – The Clerkenwell Tales – Peter Ackroyd

    I loved The Clerkenwell Tales. Beautifully written, with a fantastic evolving plot. I wasn’t quite ready for the end. I learnt a great deal about medieval London in King Richard’s time and was thoroughly drawn in to the place and times. My only vague disappointment was in the frequent use of Latin phrases […]

New Zealand Painter, Geekie – Inside the Dream

  “Art is the collective dream of a culture, and when understood as such, makes both all the more sublime, and at the same time, coherent,” says Peter Geekie. “A culture deprived of artistic expression is short-lived. An individual deprived of dreams soon becomes insane.” Peter Millington, aka Geekie, emigrated from England to Australia in […]

Homeopathic Farm Support

“Organic farmers constitute only a smallish percentage of animal farming activity but conventional farmers look for alternative animal health options too,” says Tineke Verkade of Homeopathic Farm Support (HFS) based in Hamilton. “Those with knowledge utilise homeopathics early and their animals are not as sick when the vet arrives. Homeopathy is safe and effective, and […]

Dad 28.2.28 – 16.7.14

Some people lead charmed lives.  Dad’s was charmed until he was six, when his father died of a brain tumour.  To his last days he remembered the smell of Bakelite in the room where his father’s coffin lay, and how his mother picked him up and held him over the coffin; an experience that terrified  […]