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Musical time travel.
That thing when you see a picture, an image and you are transported back, usually to a better yet sadly long-gone time… There is a WordPress blog I follow (ST33) which is devoted to the designs used on record covers, album art if you will. A recent post which was simply titled “Basic“, showed the … Continue reading Musical time travel.
Augustus Smith of Berkhamsted.
I always baulk at writing a piece to which I can bring very little in the way of “original” content as I tend to think of it as plagiarism of the first order. The piece below is compiled from different sources, and I have glossed over some points of the story and had to infer … Continue reading Augustus Smith of Berkhamsted.
Śniadanie, a dlaczego nie?
If there is one thing that my various visits to Poland have taught me, it is that for many, many years I had been starting the day with a lacklustre breakfast. As a child and for as long as I can remember, cereal, in one of its various guises was what breakfast was. Shredded Wheat, … Continue reading Śniadanie, a dlaczego nie?
Quite a pheasant walk.
Many years ago, there used to be a pheasantry in Berkhamsted, although we always referred to it/them in the plural as The Pheasantries. Anyway, Dwight’s Pheasantries, reckoned to be the largest in the UK, occupied a tract of land between Ivy House Lane and Bullbeggars Lane on the northeast side of the valley in which … Continue reading Quite a pheasant walk.