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Land of my greatgrandfathers!

No-one in Venice for the wedding?

Sanction

Mellors

Unused

Bust

Beautiful photo. Deceptively simple image showing an imaginative eye. Worthy winner.

Soon you'll be able to transition from hip op to HipHop.

Pair of hares in their usual field. Today we'd obviously disturbed them at something intimate to judge from the dirty looks they gave us. They are used to us and clearly realised we were not a threat and ambled into the copse from the field edge. They didn't see our local red kite circling over...

When I started camping 75 years ago we had to make do with wool blankets made up into sleeping bags using blanket pins which were oversized safety pins. They were bulky, heavy and itchy. I was so pleased when we could afford proper down filled sleeping bags: never used a wool blanket since. I...

I photocopy the bits I want for the trip on A4 sheets and put in map case.

This thread makes me realise how much things have changed over my lifetime. My earliest memories date from when I lived in a village store of which my mother was the manageress. It being wartime, many things were rationed. Nothing was pre-wrapped and goods were usually put straight into...

We are both right handed. The elder of our two sons is left handed the younger is right handed. No other family members are left handed. This would suggest that handedness is neither genetically nor socially acquired. There are, however, variations in dominant eyes within our families. I wonder...

Pergola

Today I bought Madame a tea and cake as a birthday treat for her 85th birthday. Last of the big spenders, me.