Category Archives: Random

Looking forward, looking back…

Posted on January 17, 2023 by rhbblog

Well, we’re halfway through January and it’s my first post of the new-ish year despite the resolution to write more regularly and the weekly alarm which I set but ignore! We have much to look forward to this year with … Continue reading →

Posted in Journal, Random, Travel | Tagged 1980s, Personal, photography | Leave a comment

Tracks and traces

Posted on November 1, 2022 by rhbblog

Just another inconsequential but somehow satisfying and serendipitous little find from my genealogy meanderings. You have been warned. I was doing some transcription work for a family history society and while checking records in the 1939 register, came across Arthur … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, Music, Random | Tagged Clifford, Halifax, Heddle Nash, Hinchcliffe, Jean Morton, Morton, Widdop, Yorkshire | Leave a comment

Little Discoveries, Bigger Picture…

Posted on September 20, 2022 by rhbblog

I dabble in genealogy and suddenly remembered tonight that Find My Past had offered free access to their newspaper archives over the long weekend. There wasn’t time left for any major research, so I contented myself with a slightly manic … Continue reading →

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Domestic disruption

Posted on September 15, 2022 by rhbblog

I’ve just decamped into our bedroom with a bag of electronics, a few bits of extraneous furniture, cardboard packing cases and bubble wrap hoping to get ahead, or slightly less behind, in the schedule of packing up rooms for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Houses & Gardens, Humour, Journal, Random | Leave a comment

Connections and digressions

Posted on March 6, 2022 by rhbblog

I posted these two pictures in a Facebook Group, Calderdale Then and Now, as I had spotted someone else’s similar post about the bad winter of 1962-3. We had returned from Nigeria for good (or so my parents thought) in … Continue reading →

Posted in family history, Houses & Gardens, People, Philosophical, Random | Tagged family, Personal, photography, Yorkshire | Leave a comment

Look up

Posted on November 4, 2021 by rhbblog

We were fortunate to have our booster shots against Covid today, especially in the light of the local case rate escalation published by the ZOE project. Sitting waiting in the (mercifully quiet) doctor’s surgery I was reminded of a friend’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophical, Photography, Random | Tagged Covid, optimism | Leave a comment

Anna’s Random Thoughts

Posted on October 7, 2020 by rhbblog

I’m going to have to do this, given the title! A simple and effective artist’s book idea from Anna Yevtukh-Squire. I’ve enjoyed some brilliant classes in creative bookmaking with Anna at Malvern School of Art. over the last couple of … Continue reading →

Posted in Artsy, Books, Random | Tagged arts, bookmaking | Leave a comment

Revisiting the past: ‘dame school’.

Posted on March 31, 2020 by rhbblog

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 | 2 Comments

Belated Happy New Year!

Posted on January 13, 2020 by rhbblog

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 | 1 Comment

Around the garden

Posted on May 15, 2019 by rhbblog

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!