New Year 2020

Short post but incredibly good news. A miracle. Ilona-Ruby is in full remission. Can’t begin to tell you how that feels in words, so we will show you in art and music composed on the night we found out.

Oh, You Are High!

Our local beauty spot is once again available, with the weather perfect and Ilona-Ruby on the very slow but positive path to recovery, this is our progress so far. Music is from my number 1 favourite album by Mike Oldfield: The Songs of Distant Earth. Poignantly titled track: Only Time Will Tell.

The Lake by The Old Field

The Mastbos is a nearby forest in the city of Breda, it has a spectacular landscape and is a great place to go for a gentle stroll. This video was shot on one of the sunny days a few weeks after Ilona-Ruby’s last radiotherapy. It was good to be outside again. The music is composed […]

New Year 2019

Happy 2019! We’re hoping for one and for a miracle… we are both very scared coming to terms with Ilona-Ruby’s recent cancer discovery. Everything is now on hold indefinitely while we work through this together. This means we can have no contact with the outside world until treatment with chemotherapy is complete, as the impact […]

Return To Ommadawn

Mike Oldfield’s chilly Return to Ommadawn album dropped and so it was to be. A walk in the last sunset of November, in the afternoon at half past three. A place we frequently try to return to- as it is always changing, the lake at this place is very shallow and when dried up it […]

Sentinel – Chaamse Bos

Chilly weather, the last of the sunshine as 2018 makes its departure into the winter. The music is by Mike Oldfield, the first track- Sentinel from Tubular Bells II. The area is the remains of a filled-in outdoor swimming facility that shut down many years ago, nature has taken over the concrete and a natural […]