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Two things I always have in my cupboard are baking powder and bicarbonate of soda, so I was interested to come across adverts for both these products in my mum’s copy of Mrs Beeton, and very interested by the fact that the baking powder I have is Borwick’s, and that is the one mentioned in the […]
MoreNot a very good photo, but an intriguing plaque. Many years ago I studied medieval history for A-level, but even so I had never heard of Prince Richard, son of King John who was crowned King of the Romans in Aachen (not Rome as you might imagine) in 1257. King John who we’ve been hearing lots about this […]
MoreI like lichen but I also like bark… feeling a little stumped here… Just rooting around… Got my eye on you … and this one is just so beautiful! To find out more about bark, the fact it doesn’t only serve as a protection for trees and other woody plants as our skin does on our […]
MoreToday it is April Fool’s day or All Fools’ day… and I confess, I did get fooled… a friend led me to believe she was at Chicago O’Hare International Airport… I was so excited for her and was about to message her to find out what she was doing there when I thought maybe she’d left her phone […]
MoreThis is the Komo imp; he’s advertising metal polish in a design which dates back at least to the turn of the nineteenth century. I can’t find out anything about the company which made it, all I can find is adverts for the sale of similar signs. On some of those signs the imp is […]
MoreThe ferry across the Solent between Portsmouth and Gosport only takes four minutes, but even so, those four minutes are magical – being on a ferry and crossing from one place to another. Ferry men have always had a mythological status; Charon who took the dead across Styx to Hades figures is referred to even […]
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Lois Elsden 