Monthly Archives: November 2010

Foundlings

Today I found out all about the Foundling Hospital. Oddly coincidentally I heard about it a few weeks ago while watching an art programme about Hogarth. A few of his paintings were specifically created for it and, I think, still … Continue reading

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Remembering

It was Remembrance Sunday today. Not that it made a lot of difference to mine. I observed the two minutes silence on the 11th at 11:00 like I always do. I was reminded when I watched the results show for … Continue reading

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Rakin’ it in

Another gloomy day, though no rain, just steel grey clouds hanging like a thick coverlet of lead. I took some more Farnham photos when I went shopping but they were mostly disappointing. I did manage to find the world’s biggest … Continue reading

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Spam & Pop Tarts

In the early hours of this morning, an idiot from West London decided it was fine and dandy to walk along a Tube tunnel (I assume he’d missed what he thought was the last train). He stepped off the station … Continue reading

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Chalk & Cheese

What a difference! Today was ghastly. I was woken in the night by the gale force winds and lashing rain, crashing against the windows. I even had to close them. Not because I was cold but because the rain was … Continue reading

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Lovely Farnham

Today was as gorgeous as yesterday was grim. Sun and blue skies, though bitterly cold, made for excellent photo ops. And, as Mirinda claims I do not include enough pictures of our lovely town in my blog, I aim to … Continue reading

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Better late

This morning I finally had my Introduction Session at the Talking Newspaper. OK, so I’ve been reading/editing for a year now but even so…I’m glad I went. I was thinking it was going to be a waste of time but, … Continue reading

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Infant’s feeding bottles

I have typed the above about 40 times today. That was what the majority of today’s records were. They were starting to drive me close to insanity! There was a (very) brief respite brokered by a couple of random rubber … Continue reading

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Avuncular Theatre

Today the weather has turned cold. We have been quite lucky with the heat, even when it rains, but today, that all changed. The sky was generally grey with a few moments of sun. We had quite a bit of … Continue reading

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Repelling hostile creatures

For my birthday, Dawn and I went to the British Museum to see the new Egyptian Book of the Dead exhibition. It was a bit of a snap decision. I heard a glowing review of it on Front Row on … Continue reading

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