Pair of flintlock/boxlock pistols crafted by the legendary Versailles master gunsmith Nicolas Noel Boutet, 1810.

"Do you know— through all the tears and crying, I have learnt to be content and accept that I cannot always be happy. I learn to be secure in my loneliness, hopeful that I will be able to cope. But every year on Christmas Day I get very lonely. An incredible feeling of solitude. Everything begins to stand still, and even the trees have stop rustling. But I’m still moving, and I want to move, but I have nowhere to move to, and nowhere to go. The scars beneath my skin begin to surface, and I begin to get scared, scared of being alone. But now I know, that all this will pass, and tomorrow is another day, and I will carry on with my life." - Lilting (2014)

Cluster of stars / photographic postcard

“I mean, bees.” — “The Adventure of The Lion’s Mane”, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, dramatised for radio by Bert Coules