20th Century
Hellfire Corner
Dover In this week’s dip into the family album we have moved around the Kent coast from Ramsgate and have arrived in Dover. The White Cliffs, the outline of Dover Castle and the seafront make [more…]
Hobbies
20th Century
Slow Boats To Africa, Part Two
In Part One we followed the journey of Irishman Charles Freeman, on the SS Medic down the west coast of Africa, from Liverpool to Cape Town in 1927. The ship was continuing on to Australia, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week One-Hundred And Ninety-One
Monday Good bank holiday morning everyone, it’s a sunny today which is unusual for a bank holiday Monday. I’m looking forward to a nice lazy day today with no visitors to Number 10 and only [more…]
Cooking
Real Men Eat Real Quiche
After the crowning broad bean horror of Charles the ill’s recent circus, it’s time to rehabilitate the quiche from the gastronomic hell into which it has been plunged by meddling chefs. The original quiche is [more…]
20th Century
Nostalgia Album, Kent
Canterbury In our family album, my father and grandparents visited Kent and Sussex for a holiday in 1948. This was a time of great change and transformation in those counties as they, and the rest [more…]
18th Century
A View (120 Miles Or So) From The Greenhouse; Whitby(ish) A Postcard
First things first, as the saying goes. Starting bottom left, the vine flourishes and has benefitted, in no small measure, from a good old fashioned “clip out”, more of which next time. Before we get [more…]
Arts
Animals
The Cnuteneering Home For Wayward Lathes and Mills
As many of you know I have been hankering after a milling machine for some time. Not being able to justify the price of a shiny new one I have been religiously checking ebay and [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary – Week One-Hundred And Ninety
Monday Good morning everyone, and welcome to another week of my musings. I have had a cracking weekend. It has been lovely and peaceful in Number 10 with the Rich Boy in Japan and since [more…]