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Injecting some colour into my life!
The other day I had a play with a couple of online colourising tools. It was coming up to what would have been my parents’ 70th wedding anniversary, so I played with a few photos to post elsewhere on the … Continue reading
Posted in family history, People, Photography
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Comfort food
In these strange and uncertain times, I’ve been indulging a penchant for some traditional comfort food. Some of these weren’t necessarily favourites in childhood, when the exotic was more appealing than the everyday, but now have a nostalgic appeal. The … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Drink, Recipes, Uncategorized
Tagged dessert, eggs, family, milk, pudding, recipe, sweet, traditional
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Revisiting the past: ‘dame school’.
I occasionally search desultorily for some of my childhood memories in one form or another. A search for mentions of my ‘dame school’ in Bukuru, Nigeria, threw up a surprise result today, in the form of a book written by … Continue reading
Posted in family history, History, Random, Travel
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“Alas Too Idle Yet Writing a Book” – Census Gems
Originally posted on PastToPresentGenealogy:
If you think reading the census is dull, think again. It can reveal some unexpected gems. I thought I’d share a few I’ve viewed over the years – ones I’ve found, and some located by others.…
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Belated Happy New Year!
And an even more belated post. I can’t blame the art summer school (August), daughter’s wedding (end of September), various forays into printing and a flurry of bookmaking for my first ever demo (November) or even the post-election depression and … Continue reading
Posted in People, Photography, Random, Seasonal
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Happy birthday and solstice solace…
We stopped for a while today at a delightful poppy field near Kidderminster, Worcestershire. It was a delight, and I thought how my mum would have loved to see the blowzy, nodding mass of poppies in all their slghtly rain-battered … Continue reading
Posted in Locality, Nature, People, Seasonal
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Around the garden
There seems to be a seasonal colour theme going on in the garden today… Montage of a few phone snaps. I do feel a bit guilty at robbing the poor embarrassed moai of their dignity with the pansy hats!
Posted in Houses & Gardens, Locality, Nature, Photography, Random, Seasonal
Tagged flora, garden, purple
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You can take the girl out of Halifax…
I managed to come over all decisive today and finish off the mixed-media piece I started a few weeks ago on a course at Malvern Hills College. It was acrylic-based and also I learned how to do gelli prints and … Continue reading
