Bits and pieces

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

Barking in Kent

I 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 […]

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Lichen Fool’s Day

Today 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 […]

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The Komo imp

This 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 […]

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Ferry…

The 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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Open the door

This metal door is set into a farm wall, just outside the farmhouse. It’s about  eighteen inches to two foot wide and about twelve inches tall.  It’s not big enough for a farmer to leave produce in to be picked up by someone, far too small for milk churns, and there’s not much room for […]

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