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‘Liebchen – sweetness – what watch?’ ‘Ten watch.’ ‘Such watch?’
Casablanca. That sweet German couple sitting in Rick’s. Drinking farewell brandies. Speaking English. Practising for America. Flying via Lisbon, no doubt. Where we’re heading next. By train. Trains run to timetables. Hours and minutes are important. Clocks (and watches) are … Continue reading
Posted in Travelling
Tagged Casablanca, ceramics factories, chimneys, food, lifts, Lisbon, museums, olive groves, Porto, trains, Wine
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There and back. A post-industrial journey, with cake
I used to love seeing labels that said ‘Empire Made’ – engraved on an old pair of scissors or a battered decorative tin. Such a feeling of immensity in that one word, ‘empire’. But I was a little girl then … Continue reading
Posted in Art, jaunts & going out, Britain now & then
Tagged cake, chimneys, Commonwealth, cotton, empire made, mills, silver jewellery, smoke, weavers, wool, Yorkshire
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