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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!
Chirrup chirrup… is it a nightjar?
For a month or so, since I’ve had my window open in the evening while I’m working, I’ve heard a bird nearby with a strange call. He – or she, spends most of the evening making a rasping chirruping churruping noise, and even if I’ve worked into the hours of the early morning, I can […]
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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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