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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Irish blackthorns, malacca canes…
James Smith and Sons… umbrellas recovered, renovated and repaired, sticks repolished; riding crops and whips, Irish blackthorns, malacca canes; life preservers, dagger canes, swordsticks…
MoreThe soft and squidgy side to war
I couldn’t help but smile on today’s editorial comment in the Daily Telegraph about the report that aircraft crews during the war had had to contend with other difficulties than what might be expected: The Sixties were a tense time for the pilots and crews of V bombers, the RAF’s strategic nuclear strike aircraft. At […]
MoreBrrrrrr…..
I’m posting this to remind myself how lovely the summer was, and to try and remember back a couple of days ago when I walked out in the evening in just my shirtsleeves (actually I was wearing shorts and a shirt as well as the shirt sleeves…) The wind is raging round the house, rain […]
MoreBristol grafitti
Blue lady The Queen by Banksy? or just a copy? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/9310201/Banksy-draws-the-Queen-as-Ziggy-Stardust.html
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