20th Century
Remembering
As Puffins may already know, it was my birthday last week. The hints were heavy and even segued into a review of French New Wave cinema – like me, a conveniently early 1960s phenomenon. Thank [more…]
Collecting
Collecting
Smalls acts of resistance: P-p-p-pick up a pen and start planning
The following two statements are a given among most GPers: We won’t vote our way out of this; we and our way of life are being replaced at a rate of knots… The late Patrick [more…]
Collecting
An odd obsession
There is a saying that one chainsaw is too many, but 10 is not enough…. I have fidddled about with mechanical things all my life – not only because of the enjoyment but because of [more…]
Arts
A Fleeting Visit To a Great Museum
There are surely few greater joys than visiting a top flight museum, and getting close up and personal with some of the great creations of mankind. It could be a visit to Duxford to see, [more…]
Collecting
Collecting Lamps
Many thanks to our host and mentor Swiss Bob for prompting me to write an article about solutions to the loss of lighting during power outages. Obviously oil lamps and lanterns won’t run a laptop, [more…]
20th Century
A Ukrainian Enigma
I have an original photograph bought as part of a “bundle” from a militaria seller whose business model is to put together sets of documents, photographs and ephemera that appear to be vaguely related so [more…]
Arts
A Few of My Favourite Things – Part 2
Part 1 of this series featured 3 glass pieces of art from my collection. In the second part I take a look at some other forms of art, the first of which is a print [more…]
Collecting
A Few of My Favourite Things – Part 1
It’s been a while since I last did an article about art and thought I would take a few pictures of some of my best and most treasured items. The first is our most recent [more…]
20th Century
A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise
A Postcard from Petrolhead Paradise Well, Stone the crows! A sunny Saturday in September saw a bit of a surprise. Although we’d noticed the colourful banner advertising the event often enough as we wandered hither [more…]