Loco I’m Loco
Loco has been my nick-name since I was a child… I just liked the name of this café! It’s on Ely station and it just amused me.
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Flying horse
I wonder what his name is? Something exotic and mysterious I think, Kakhaberi maybe or Hamazasb… or Bahandur? At night he leaves the carousel and with his friends he leaps to the skies and flies free among the clouds. he is not the fastest, he is not the strongest, but he is the most courageous! His shoes are shod […]
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Not wasting…
You’re probably looking at this photo and thinking it is a jar of marmalade; if you could see the label properly you would see it says Barmalade (marmalade made by Bari) and you might be wondering why I have posted a picture showing such a scruffy pot, all sticky round the top, a rather marked label… not really very attractive […]
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Feather name
I came across a lovely phrase today in my Gaelic class, ainm cleite; ainm (pronounced anum/anim) means name, and cleite which means feather… feather name which translates as pen name, and like the French ‘nom de plume’ it derives from the use of a quill to write with. I’ve never been tempted to use a […]
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