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Draw Something – or other
First of all I have to apologise that this blog has been untended for almost a year. Wetherspoon have opened their newly refurbished premises in St Thomas Street. The premises look good and the designers have done a very nice … Continue reading
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Another kind of lomography
People coming to this blog might be questioning my abilities to take a decent photograph. I do myself sometimes. Just before Christmas I saw a guy in Waitrose, Lymington’s car park taking photographs of a strangely beautiful dusk sky. I … Continue reading
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A small Antipodean ‘batterie de cuisine’
Further to my obsession with kitchen gadgets – the Antipodeans seem to have got something going: the orange sieve goes back to the late sixties and is still in remarkably good condition, I thought that the stainless mesh would pull … Continue reading
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The Westmark potato peeler
This is a photo of my first Westmark potato peeler. I purchased it in about 1969 at Rackhams in Birmingham, incidentally, at the same time, I also bought a Jotul cast iron frying pan and a bright orange Cuisine Queen … Continue reading
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My Russian camera
For fun I recently purchased an old SLR camera from my local pub. It was a Zenit. I had heard of the make, at art college it was the cheapskates’ SLR. Posher students having Prakticas and Pentaxes. My friend … Continue reading
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