A sense of change ...
The Roman poet Ovid wrote his masterpiece, Metamorphoses, during the reign of the Augustus. It is a vast mythological epic that tells the story of the history of the world through a series of transformations. The theme is established in the very first line In nova fert animus mutatas dicere formas which, with a bit of poetic license, may be translated as My soul is wrought to sing of forms transformed to bodies new… No I have not been eating dubious mushrooms, so you may well ask what exactly has prompted this rather exuberant flight of fancy related to ancient Latin poetry. The answer, I'm afraid, is surprisingly prosaic – our little farm cottage is rapidly emerging from its chrysalis to reveal a new and beautiful shape both inside and out. We were always cognisant of the fact that our extension/renovation needed to maintain the character of our 1940s farmhouse. That said we also wanted to a little je ne sais quoi to justify the time, effort and expense in...
