Bits and pieces

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

Romany

As a child I loved listening to the radio, especially Children’s Hour; the programme contained a wide variety of different items, drama, adventures, factual, historical… I owe that programme so much in how it educated me. One of the programmes was presented by ‘Romany’ and imagine my surprise while on holiday recently in Sandsend when […]

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What can he see?

This is part of the frieze around the lovers statue in St Pancras Station, actually called Meeting Place. It shows a typical scene from a busy commuter train, maybe an underground, maybe just an ordinary railway train. You can see a typical cross-section of people, some asleep, some reading newspapers, some just gazing into the […]

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Hostas… or funkia?

I really do not like hostas, really…. but wait… these are rather lovely…. maybe I should think again! There are over 25 species of them, maybe I have only met the 24 varieties I did not like! I think I like them a little more now I have learnt they used to be called funkia.

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