Posted in Photography, Uncategorized, tagged colours, photography on March 23, 2013| 4 Comments »
Institutional blue reappearing on a green-painted fence, March 2, 2013…
The above is an iPhone snapshot and this is just a short post to launch my 2013 gallery, which you can see here.
But it’s also to ask if anyone else out there recognises this turquoise colour as “institutional blue”. A couple of decades ago it seemed (more…)
Posted in Nature, Uncategorized, tagged Nature, Spring on March 17, 2013| 20 Comments »
Euphorbia after recent rain…
It has been a while since I have written about my garden, so this is a catch-up. Although I gloried in one spring day in February, since then we have gone back to winter. We had (more…)
Posted in Childhood memories, Nostalgia, Uncategorized, tagged Nostalgia on March 11, 2013| 12 Comments »
My old iron…
The other day, when I was in the middle of ironing, all the electrical power went off in the house. I assumed it was a power cut and checked with neighbours. I was surprised to find it affected only our house.
I turned the power-supply trip-switches off and back on. Nothing. I switched off the lights, radio, iron, etc and tried again, realising I had missed one of the trip-switches the first time. Hooray! Let there be light!
I switched the iron back on. Bang! Everything went again. But (more…)
Posted in Gwent, Uncategorized, Wales, tagged Gwent, Monmouthshire, Usk on March 4, 2013| 8 Comments »
A little lock-up in Bridge Street, Usk…
The small town of Usk has several blue plaques placed by the civic society but I hadn’t spotted this one before. Which is strange, as (more…)
The Squirrelbasket 