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More pictures from my visit to Kensal Green Cemetery…


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Paid a visit to Kensal Green Cemetery one quiet sunny day a few weeks ago. Had the place to myself apart from some groundskeepers and birds. Didn't find any especially famous graves (not that I was really looking), but that just gives me an excuse to go back.


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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... )

Last week I was supposed to go and take some more photos for my piece in ink+PAPER (which I now realise I have neglected to mention on here, oops). As usual I accidentally got on the wrong bus, which is actually OK because I like exploring London by bus.

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I promised more book recommendations, so here are a couple that I'm recommending even though I haven't read them (yet) myself!

Last week there was a launch party for David B's Black Paths, at Clerkenwell Tales, a lovely little bookshop in Exmouth Market. I'd only heard about the launch the previous evening, which meant I was a bit late in getting a ( Read more... )

I really ought to plug stuff on here more often. Not my stuff - other peoples' stuff. I know so many people who make cool stuff, and I'm a fan of so many people who make cool stuff that I really ought to tell more people about the cool stuff. So here's a post about some cool stuff, namely one of my favourite comics series of all time.

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