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Land of my greatgrandfathers!

No-one in Venice for the wedding?

Sanction

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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...

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

Perhaps Tony ought to check if any tickets for the Moot have been bought by MI5.

During WW2, women made underwear out of parachute silk their menfolk "lberated". My mother asked my father if he could get her some and he duly obliged. Perhaps she should have been more specific. The parachute silk he brought her never became underwear but came in very useful over the years for...

I'm on an R M Ballantyne splurge at the moment having discovered freebies on Kindle. I last read him as a child about 75 years ago. The underlying ideology reflects the 19th century values of their time and the plots and characterisations are simplistic. Nevertheless, the subject matter and...

When I trained as a teacher in 1966/69, my subject, Art , and PE were both highly regarded because "In the world of the future, most of the work will be done by computers and robots leaving a large amount of leisure for people to engage in cultural and sporting activities". I quote from a...

Thanks for that: an interesting read. We eventually installed a chicken wire fence along the hedgerow adjacent to the copse where the deer live. It seems to have done the trick despite not fully enclosing the garden. This would suggest, as does the article, that disruption of the deer's...