Being a lucky child my parents enrolled me as a Northern School of Music Junior pupil. Along with others, I went to school on Saturday morning for music theory and piano lessons and I was very pleased to do that.There were quite a few NSM Juniors and even now I can remember a lot of … More Beatrice Rollins – Musician and Piano Teacher
There was a mention of gas light a month or so ago in this blog. It was quite deliberate. There is something very special about gas light via incandescent mantles. Gas light itself is a shade of bright green light and being so is not tiring by which to read. In the 1960s gas lamps … More Gaslight
Av spen a forchun on th’ancestry dot com an due gnaw, a thowt uz ad gee it a shot an see whur a cum from an ju gnaw, a reckon uz it’s bin a big werst ont brass acoz well, a thowt ad look up mi feyther’s famly an all bu weeyad these ear photers … More Famly Istry – a dialect tale for recitation
OK I know I said it was only occasionally biographical. It is. I got a great heads up from this blog last week. This blog is really nice. Check it out please. Inspired or maybe just changed, I acted differently last week. At present, we have the builders in – and no, that’s not any kind … More Let Those That Can Fly Fly
Today 4th July, is Independence Day in America, so a happy holiday to our American friends. In Northern Europe this period stands at the edge of summer. The end of June and the start of July being the time of Lime trees. This Lime tree, Tilia, and not the citrus Lime is a fantastic wood … More Lime trees – Linden but not Citrus
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