More vintage stuff that belonged to my grandparents. First up, the bottles that I mentioned at the end of my previous vintage boxes post. Several bottles of smelling salts for some reason. More for relieving catarrh than for the fainting, I think.


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My mum dug some old stuff out for me to take photos of, and I posted some photos on Instagram, so I thought I'd post them here too, because I'm rather smitten with the designs. These were all originally amongst my grandparents' things (except the first one; someone sent it to me from America), and I thought it would be interesting to see if the ( Read more... )

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There's a good reason I'm posting this photo of Stacy and Andrew from ten years ago, but I haven't written the post yet.


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A while ago, my mum was clearing out some boxes when she found this tiny little envelope full of old photos that my grandparents took when they were in Spain. I think most of these were taken in Barcelona, although the envelope came from Alicante, and was stuffed full of negatives that were clearly developed in a different place. I haven't ( Read more... )

So, it turns out my domain name expires tomorrow (August 3rd) - I thought I had another week to get it sorted out. And what should be a simple matter of direct debit is proving a problem because I had my card replaced at the start of the year and of course they don't match up. On top of which, Paypal is also refusing to recognise my card, and also ( Read more... )

This may seem a completely random question, but it's been on my mind since I reread Castle Waiting a couple of weeks ago. One of the characters is a doctor who has experience of the plague, and wears the mask at all times. The question came up again today when I was browsing Will's flickrstream and came across this pic of a plague doctor. Searching ( Read more... )

Someone found the place where Superman washes his costumes:


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Get excited, eat cake things.


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1. Gareth thinks I update this thing too often.
But I only update it once or twice a week, not every day, so I guess he'll have to make more of an effort to read it, or he'll just have to keep on marking it all as read on his Google Reader. Sorry, Gareth. (It's lovely to have you home, though.)

2. It's mating season for the herons in Regent's Park.
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