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Category Archives: Britain now & then
A couple of months in the ups and downs
An old English folk song inspired the title. And to cheer you into this largely pictorial post here it is, sung by Steeleye Span. Those ups and downs are NOT the kind I’m referring to – I’ve never asked a … Continue reading
“O Word of Fear”
It’s been a very long time. Not since the mid-1990s in fact. And that was at a small, rural sewage treatment works in Wiltshire. Rural sewage treatment works tend to be havens for wildlife – and also quiet, hard to … Continue reading
I’ve published a post on my other site, the one where I express my nerd-like interest in things being made or done in Britain, about a printing company in Lancashire that has the last Intertype line-casting machine ever made. A … Continue reading
Dogs, logs – and more important things
It was a two walk weekend, after a week of only one. And that one was to the shops. With a brief diversion into the cemetery. Those angels. They need watching over. Something about having strangers working in the house … Continue reading
That little girl in red sandals
OK, so my last post was: heavy/silly/vain/weird/interesting/other (no need to delete as appropriate). On the plus side, in one comment, the seer said he could see the little girl I portrayed, running around in her pretty dress, red sandals and … Continue reading
The Ides of March
Beware, cried the soothsayer. Or was it the East wind? As I sit down to write this post – amid boxes of tiles, plaster dust and paint – I calculate that it’s XIII days before the Kalends of April. I … Continue reading
Posted in Britain now & then, Lancashire & the golf coast, Liverpool, Nature notes
Tagged Crosby, Ides, Kalends, Lancashire, letterpress, Nones, rainbows, Rufford Printing Company, soothsayer, the mosses
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Through a glass, brightly
I did think about calling this post Chicken Oblivious. But you know how it is. The cyclist would have been offended. If he’d known. I’d spent the afternoon engrossed in watching a kind of ballet. Two people, dancing a pas … Continue reading
Posted in Art, jaunts & going out, Lancashire & the golf coast
Tagged Art, Cedar Farm, colour, glass, kitchens, lighting, Mawdesley
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