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
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…]
Collecting
Exploring Lego Colours
There is quite enough gloom ‘n’ doom in the news nowadays so I thought I’d look instead at an obscure aspect of my hobby – Lego – and my interest, nay obsession, with the different [more…]
Collecting
Going for Gold – Part 11, 2023 Update
Since my last ‘Going for Gold’ article I have been asked, from time to time, for advice about the best type of gold to buy and where I would recommend buying it from. I will [more…]
21st Century
A Postcard from the IFG Part One
International Festival of Glass, Stourbridge, August 2022 Earlier this year, around May-June if I remember correctly since it was right in the midst of the chaos of our moving home, it was with some excitement [more…]
Arts
More Artwork 2022, Part One
It’s been several months since my last artwork article and I thought I would respond to SB’s request for more articles by submitting an update on latest purchases etc. Hope you enjoy it. You may [more…]
Collecting
A View From The Greenhouse; This Sporting Life
Life carries on much as normal, given the increasingly bizarre times we live in. The weather, thankfully, has picked up and jobs that have been on hold for a couple of weeks have risen to [more…]
Arts
Sparklets Soda Syphons of The ’60s & ’70s
The Beginning If society ever collapses to the point where I’m judged to be a suitable contestant on Mastermind, my specialist subject will be ‘Sparklets’ soda syphons of the 1960s and 70s’. I’ve been fascinated [more…]