Our Brave Seeds "Women of Note" posts were originally conceived around a focus on the women who shape our regional community - social and...

Platform 13 "Seed" Member,  Petra Miller, writes from Oxford, UK. PM: I enjoyed reading your “At the Platform edge” September journal, so...

I love almost everything that is old. Old books, old times, old manners. One of the few enviable advantages of being British lies not...

There was a time when a social visit began not with a text message or a hopeful knock, but with a small, stiff rectangle. The calling...

“Travel whispers to the soul’s boldness. It asks not for the absence of fear, but the courage to lead into the unknown, to embrace both...

October in the Dordogne is quieter now. The fields are slowing, the walnuts gathered, the vines picked clean. But for bees, it’s still...

September is a bit of a hinge month, a threshold that resists placement in the pigeon hole. It is neither the lingering ease of summer,...

Platform 13 CEO Vanessa Grant on Soul, Strength and the Sacred Feminine. Sitting in sacred silence There are words that carry weight far...

If Fridays had faces, they would be the visage of a donkey. Unhurried, standing in a meadow, the very picture of end-of-the-week...

Vineyards are surely the most civilised of our ancient cultivations. Humanity seems to have evolved liking its plants arranged in tidy...

On a rainy day last November, the humble baguette was acknowledged and enshrined forever by UNESCO as “a thing of exceptional interest for the common heritage of mankind.”

Larders. A kitchens inner sanctum. Holy places, robust and well-filled, perhaps inscribed with wise, grandmotherly apothegms, carved on...