I've been trying to post about the latest temporary sculptures inLondon  - interpretations of Paddington Bear designed by various celebrities ( Read more... )

Good wishes to all. I'm just off to visit son and family - they are all blackberries and super phones, so I probably won't get online for a more personalised post till at least Tuesday.
A bientot! :-)

Here is the whole monument and a link to the Estate website - well worth a visit as natives of Staffordshire will know. http://shugborough.cmhosts.net/home-10
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I was going to post this in a comment to a friend who's just lost one of her cats after an illness, but then saw that another is thinking about adopting new feline friends, so I thought I'd put it here for all interested to share.

We went to Liverpool last weekend for our grandchildren's Baptism (described by ephemera, a weekend that also included a trip to ( Read more... )

I am on the hunt for 20-24 straw hats about 6" in diameter - can anyone think where I might find such a thing please?

Those of you who are still around and reading from long ago, will possibly remember how I once explained why OO is OO - being the Original Owner of our quite unusual surname, which is not common anywhere outside his native heath (or moors). He also has a fairly unusual Christian name due to having to be baptised in a hurry, leaving my m-i-l, one of ( Read more... )

Some of you may have read via ephemera that my sister died last Wednesday ( Read more... )

Hello everyone:
Busy as ever, without timne for writing up - but it's good to be able to be busy :-)

Can anyone tell me what size an Italian jacket with a size label showing 30/44( set out like a vulgar fraction, thirty forty-fourths) might actually be?

Many thanks!

First I kept thinking of stuff to post and not having time to write the accounts of what I'd been doing, then I reduced my ambition to letting people know about things that were happening or worth reading or whatever: and never found time to post the links ( Read more... )

I finally figured out the bullet points in Publisher conundrum - though why a desktop publishing programme should not make it super-easy is beyond me ( Read more... )