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A View From The Greenhouse; Far Right Extremism (Innit?)

17th May 2022 Colin Cross 0

Welcome everyone, to my bi-weekly missive on all things “green”, some things bizarre and some things which may appear “made up” but which most definitely aren’t. Back to something like 90% fitness I’ve spent the [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Fourteen

7th May 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we followed my father and grandparents in their Ford 8 across the channel and down to the southwest of France via Louviers and Tours, all the way to glamorous Biarritz in the extreme [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; Bath, A Chance Encounter, Long “Covid”

3rd May 2022 Colin Cross 0

It’s been a month now since I last posted from the greenhouse, although, somewhat thankfully, it hasn’t been a month since I visited it. With the arrival of spring we see ewes and lambs arriving [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Thirteen

30th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Previously on these pages, Puffins have learned that everything was better in the old days. Malta was better as a Crown colony, railway stations were better with splt-flap Solari rattle boards rather than giant RGB [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Twelve

23rd April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

As we discovered last time on Nostalgia Album, Malta is short of trees. Although my father’s cousin, Anne, and her parents Bob and Lil along with some Navy friends, did find some rare shade when [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Eleven

16th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album we visited the coast at Malta’s Ghajn Tuffieha. Pictured on the road nearby is my father’s cousin, Anne, at the front, with her parents Lil and Bob standing behind her, [more…]

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Infrared photography

14th April 2022 Going Postal 0

Photography has always been a hobby of mine and as I became more interested in it I joined a local camera club. This led me to be exposed to a whole new world of photography [more…]

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Nostaglia Album, Part Ten

9th April 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

At the end of the Second War, my father’s cousin Anne and her mother travelled to Malta to join her father Rob who was a Royal Navy foreman in Malta’s Grand Harbour dockyards. They lodged [more…]

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A View From The Greenhouse; The Truth Of The Matter

5th April 2022 Colin Cross 0

I’ve mentioned the “yawk” up before, although it’s fair to say I may have miss-spelled it in the past. Suffice to say, the term has nothing whatsoever to do with the fine city of York [more…]

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