When we moved house from the actual Old Mortuary we bought a house with 7 Chandeliers. After 2 years we have got that number down to 4. We are not Chandelier people. I don’t have a fear of Chandeliers, and one of my favourite comedy moments involves a Chandelier.

I love a big, grand Chandelier like the one above, ours are poor imitations and rather effective as dust catchers. I have created a Chandelier black hole for this blog, I was looking for the opposite of serendipity. I wondered how to get there. Coloured glass was my route.

After a few days in Venice, where this Chandelier twinkled for us, we had seen more coloured glass than was good for us.

I had rather hoped to see some gorgeous contemporary glass but if there was anything beyond the predictable temptations for tourists we didn’t find it. So without being able to show you gorgeous glass I will share another video . Dale Chihuly in Venice. If you have the time follow the video trail that Youtube offers. Some truly great art.

Gorgeous glass in Venice. If you watch the video you will notice that the artist wears an eye patch. By an awful quirk of fate a shard of glass from a shattered windscreen blinded him in one eye.

An artist blinded by the medium that made him famous.

Quite the opposite of serendipity which , thank goodness, takes us to the black hole at the centre of this blog. Zemblamity

Goodness me that was tortuous!!