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Tarts and gay gobbles

I spent much of today down in Loughborough helping take stock of the Gould Theatre Collection, the life accumulations of Mervyn Stockbridge Gould, raconteur extrordinaire and keeper of the Schnorbitz.
I expected to find myself getting rather maudlin as he was a very close friend and sadly missed. Surprisingly enough, I found the experience therapeutic and [...]

Posted on March 7, 2010 at 8:03 pm by Shades · Permalink · Leave a comment
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“Tuppenny Rushes”

Saturday morning picture shows are looked back on with affection by many people over fifty in Britain. For a few pennies, children had the chance to spend an hour or two watching Westerns, cartoons and Serials with the cliffhanger endings that the hero always managed to resolve really easily in the thirty seconds of [...]

Posted on January 21, 2010 at 10:32 pm by Shades · Permalink · 2 Comments
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Pepparkakshus

Karen was told of a little Christmas tradition from a colleague of hers at work. It was to take a trip to the Ikea Swedish Shop and to buy a Gingerbread House kit. Coming from Ikea, of course, it comes as a flat-pack knock-down construction…

After a bit of icing sugar glueing, David was able [...]

Posted on November 29, 2009 at 4:10 pm by Shades · Permalink · 3 Comments
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Happy Anniversary to me…

Today, the blog is five years old.

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Here’s to another five!
I might really push the boat out and do another videoblog for my 2,000th post.

Posted on July 7, 2009 at 8:02 am by Shades · Permalink · 8 Comments
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The two Queens

Now I wouldn’t normally associate a steam preservation society with Pub memories, but one occurred to me this afternoon.
When I used to live in Maidenhead, a colleague lived on the way to Reading and he had two Pubs just round the corner down a lane- The Queen Victoria, and the Queen Adelaide, known locally as [...]

Posted on July 5, 2009 at 8:41 pm by Shades · Permalink · Leave a comment
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