This website has been created by two friends; one English and one Japanese. We are not professional website designers (as you will probably discover by looking at the site!) but two people who enjoy the sort of things we talk about on the site.  

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I'm the British one and my name is Ann Davey. I was born on the south coast of England in a town called Bournemouth, but have now lived in London for a number of years. As a graduate in literature and history I've always always been interested in our language, countryside, heritage and all the other subjects I have been writing about in these pages.

For the last 17 years I have been involved in the antiques business in London, selling general antiques originally, but eventually specializing in antiques lace and other textiles. Some of you may have met me in Portobello Road market where I had a stall for over 10 years or in Alfies antiques centre in Marylebone, London, where I have also been selling for the last 6 years. On two occasions I was fortunate to have the opportunity to visit Japan and to sell my antiques in Odakyu Department store in Shinjuku, Tokyo. In September 1999 there was a short article about me in 'Mrs' magazine (number 535), which some of you may have seen.

I've been to England only a few times.  I am not familiar with antiques and culture and England.  I would like to learn a lot about these while making this website with Ann and questioning her together with the readers.