Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Knots…

I think I might start a new hobby… tying knots! I was  brownie, and one of the things we had to do was to learn to tie knots, but of course we only tied easy and useful knots, sheep shank, round turn and two half hitches, reef knot and a clove hitch… I can’t say […]

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Walkie-talkie

In my series of old and new, here we have in Fenchurch Street in London the so-called Walkie-Talkie building; perhaps it is most famous for setting fire to things because of the sun’s reflected rays off its glass… Hmmm… good idea, eh, not far from where the Great Fire of London started, have a building which sets […]

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