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The meteorite

25/08/2024 nsford 2 Comments

Every so often, I think about what I saw, more than twenty years ago. I’m calling it a meteorite, but…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: experiences, random

7 weird old tips from diet and cookery books

05/05/2024 nsford Leave a comment

Food trends are nothing new, as these snippets from old books will demonstrate. All of these are from books on…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: health, random

The clunker – a library essential

27/07/2023 nsford 2 Comments

The other day, I suddenly remembered the ‘clunker’. This was a piece of equipment used by a public library I…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: libraries, random

Kew Gardens on a sunny Easter Sunday

11/04/2023 nsford 6 Comments

The weather was glorious. Bees and butterflies flew through the perfumed air. Many people had decided to visit Kew to…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: experiences, random

“Number, please?” – how to make a telephone call 100 years ago

19/01/2023 nsford 8 Comments

I found a 1923 Post Office directory recently while researching. It was mostly a list of numbers but it also…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: random, technology

A springtime visit to Kew Gardens

22/03/2022 nsford 12 Comments

It was a sunny day in mid-March when I returned to Kew, having decided when I visited last summer that…

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Posted in: Random, Writing Filed under: experiences, random

Dodgy romantic advice from old self-help guides

14/02/2022 nsford 8 Comments

Here’s something a bit different for you this Valentine’s Day. Last year, we had fictional dates from hell! The year…

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Posted in: Reading Filed under: books, history, humans, random, reading, resources, Valentine's Day

A summer visit to Kew Gardens

07/07/2021 nsford 10 Comments

London sweated in the hazy heat of early July. After breathing the polluted air of the traffic-heavy Kew Bridge, it…

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Posted in: Random, Writing Filed under: experiences, random

More tiny problems which are ridiculously annoying

11/06/2021 nsford 20 Comments

Why should the massive problems have all the limelight? Let’s give some attention to more of those tiny problems which…

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Posted in: Random Filed under: random

Who will you invite to your fictional party?

11/01/2021 nsford 20 Comments

I’m having a party! Not a real one, obviously. Fictional characters only. The venue is Doctor Who’s TARDIS (it’s bigger…

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Posted in: Film & TV, Random, Reading Filed under: books, children's fiction, fiction, films, random, reading, TV, YA fiction

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