Another great choice by celebrant Georgina Pugh. One for you, GM?    May you never lay your head down without a hand to hold May you never make your bed out in the cold Just like a great strong brother of mine, you know that I love you

      Greenfield Creations’ coffin of the week is very appropriately themed. Can’t reproduce it on the blog, darn it, but you can find it here. Click on the coffin bottom right. Fab!  

  Posted by our technology correspondent, Richard Rawlinson   Congratulations to Sir Jonathan Ive, creative head of Apple, for his knighthood this week. The Brit behind the superb styling of iPod, iPhone and iPad is perhaps the world’s most influential designer. Part of his brilliance in making his gadgets so

From an article in last Sunday’s Telegraph: Kenneth Grange, 82, has designed some of the most familiar products and appliances used in our daily lives, from Kodak cameras to Kenwood food mixers, parking meters and bus shelters to London taxis. He began his career working as an architectural assistant at

  Posted by Lyra Mollington   Our neighbour Keith had no idea that the woman who visited him every day in the care home was his wife of 57 years.  Their children and grandchildren were also strangers to him.  After he died, Doreen felt guilty that she wasn’t as grief