Barbara Gray Blog

Hi there! Thanks for popping in today! Been catching up on yesterday,  having had THE best meal ever at the Goring.  What a splendiferous Hotel! Check out this Trompe L’oeil! Incredible. The whole Hotel Lobby was hand-painted like this! I looked for the wallpaper seams, but couldn’t find any,  so investigated further, and yes it was all an original painting. You felt like you could step right into the walls. Absolutely unbelievable. A real living work of art. Even the…

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Hi there! Thanks for popping in today! I’m not in though.  Invitation to a business lunch in London. At the Goring Hotel no less! Ooooh I say!!! A day off.  (Poor old Dave has to hold the fort. Cheese and Pickle sandwich for him) The Goring is London’s last family-owned luxury hotel. Mr Goring is a very nice man too.  So let’s go find out a little more…. The power of Google, eh?! Built by Jeremy Goring’s great-grandfather Otto in 1910, The…

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Hi. Thanks for popping in. Late last night, I spent an hour reading all the comments you left on Yesterday’s mindful blog. Gulp. It was crystal clear that so many friends in our little  Clarity Community are struggling. With their health, physical and mental well-being. With their partner’s health. With loss and grief. With fear of the future. Hence the Mindful Wednesday Blog, which has become the most visited blog of the week.  I do believe it is vital to have…

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Hi there! Thanks for popping in! Wednesday is the day we step back and get mindful. So bear with me a moment; I just need to come down to earth,  get grounded and get focussed. There’s so much going on at this end, I’m in danger of whizzing through life without actually taking it in. And I bet I’m not the only one.  I’ve been thinking a lot about music lately; which music I grew up with, which music I…

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Greetings from a blustery Kent Paul here taking over the blog again whilst Barbara and Dave travel back from a busy few days in Frankfurt. Monday’s blog is all about trees and flowers, which reminded me of a photo I took the other day at the office. A proper Barbara Gray landscape! Anyway, I digress – I thought I would go back through the archives and find a step-by-step to keep you occupied! I came across this one using one…

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Hello! Thanks for popping in. Sorry I’m a bit late tonight. It’s been a long old day at the Frankfurt Messe. Messe = Trade Fair. Mind you, there is a serious Frankfurt mess around the train station. Blimey, do they need to sort that out! I thought the open air urinals took the biscuit,  but when you get feral packs of young men running wild,  scoring drug deals in public and then scattering like cockroaches when you switch the light…

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Hi! Thanks for popping in! Quick blog from Frankfurt. Had a couple of meetings in the morning, ran into a couple of friends, one in particular, which made my day! Here is our very own Rolfi! It was great to catch up and have a coffee together.  even got to give an award to Golden Acrylic! (and you know how much I love Golden Acrylic!) What else? Made some great contacts. Happy to announce that we now have a European…

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Hi there! Greetings from Frankfurt! Friday’s blog a private peek. We’re here for the Paperworld/Creative World Trade Show which begins tomorrow. Today was our day off, so we set out to explore Frankfurt.  A metropolis by any other name;  just like London – a real melting pot of all nationalities. Plenty of dodgy looking characters hanging round the Hauptbahnhof (Main train station), and a open-air urinal I decided NOT to blog about.  (gasps in disbelief). The name of the hotel…

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Hi there! well, the Big Day has arrived. The official launch of our NEW GROOVI® CLUB What with Stamps and Stencils, and now the new Groovi,  there’s a lot to consider! Here’s a short video, to sum up the Clarity Club Scene now!  Does that clarify things ? You should have been there when we were filming it! In the end, I suggested Jim do it, because at least he was still able to string a sentence together! In a nutshell…

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