Busy, over the past few weeks, reading Germaine Greer's absorbing biography, Shakespeare's Wife, and Charles Nicholl's The Lodger, which gives an excellent and detailed account of Shakespeare's sojourn with the French Mountjoy family on Silver Street in Jacobean London, I decided to make this set of imaginary books for April 23rd Shakespeare's Birthday. I included the frequently overlooked but real, narrative verse poem, Venus and Adonis. Greer describes how 'virtually all of the copies of the more than eleven editions of Venus and Adonis were read to pieces.' It was 'passed from hand to hand by excited housewives' and 'kept under their pillows'.
The Sterling Gardens development is delicate and elegant and, to be part of this stunning group of designers, I am desperately, urgently, stretching my building skills.
Featherburr at Sterling Gardens, Varriale.
Fun, animated friends and birds at Never You Mind.
