I've decided that with the new planters I've ordered pictured earlier, looking at them I need to get them up off the patio, or the base could rot....
To save taxing server capacity, I use the IMGBB hosting site for photos I put on various boards. It's free and presently I've about 300 on there.
Our daughter is the youngest of our three children. I remember when she was a teenager my wife once criticised her for the shortness of her...
I've a lot of favourites. This is Bea Wain, at the age of 22 in 1939. She lived to be 100. This tune by Hoagy Carmichael is usually associated...
Had a look at the two wooden planters in my previous photos that house three hebes in each. I had to move them yesterday when I jet-washed the...
Lots of favourites in diferent genres, too numerous to name one as the most favourite.
There was a documentary on Eric Burdon, the other night, it might have been on Sky Arts. I liked Alan Price. [MEDIA]
Back in 1965, they were appearing at a theatre in Manchester, one of them rented a house for himself and his family for the duration, across the...
Those were the days when most passport photos were taken by studios specialising in them. It was an old fashioned studio, I think it was even a...
Here I am at eighteen. It's a passport photo. I was a "Modernist" ( a modern jazz lover, not a "Mod." They came later wore fur trimmed parkas and...
Perhaps I should add a story here. It was probably around 1957/58, when I was a teenager and had recently started work. As I worked in an office...
I can never understand why people send offensive messages to other contributors on message boards, it's rather cowardly. I've another pet...
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I decided that as we've been promised to get four of five dry days, I'd make a start on the patio. It was in dire need of a jet wash. It was black...
It looks very relaxing.
I've now bought my kiln dried sand, the cement dye, the SBR additive, also a new pointing trowel (can't find the old one). I've some cement in the...
I built the little "frog pond" next to the koi pool, to give them somewhere for their spawn, it wouldn't survive in the big pool. This is "Fiona...
Didn't do anything today other than a walk around. Noticed a couple of frogs in the little pond which scurried under the rocks in the corner when...
The lights in our two lanterns are recycled pool ones we had in our first pond in the seventies. Still going strong! I'd had a concrete raft laid...
Digressing. My brother-in-law's brother did his National Service in the fifties. He has a photograph from when he was serving in Germany. It...
