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Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Showing posts with label names. Show all posts
Saturday, March 26, 2016

Carbuncles and silly names

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click photo to enlarge The right-most of the two new buildings in today's photograph was a 2015 nominee for the Carbuncle Cup,an arch...
Thursday, July 09, 2015

Burne Jones and Biblical names

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click photo to enlarge As a child I attended a Church of England primary school, the only primary school in the place where I grew up. Co...
Monday, December 01, 2014

Welland, Nene and Rolls Royce

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click photo to enlarge Long before I moved to Lincolnshire I was familiar with the names Welland and Nene. A teenage interest in aircraft...
Friday, November 08, 2013

Fruits, vegetables and names

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click photo to enlarge A shopping trip to Stamford found us in the market buying buying a couple of items. Whilst my wife made the purcha...
Saturday, November 02, 2013

Catrigg Force, Stainforth

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click photo to enlarge " Deep down on your left is the partly wooded defile in which runs the turbulent beck that riots among the wi...
Monday, September 23, 2013

Love-in-a-Mist or Devil-in-the-Bush

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click photo to enlarge Can there be a garden plant with more contradictory common names than the annual flower, Nigella damascena ? Love-...
Friday, October 05, 2012

Chandeliers, electroliers and names

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  click photo to enlarge On a couple of occasions I've reflected on the way that words pass out of daily use and acquire the status...
Friday, September 07, 2012

Renegades, Warriors and Barbarians

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click photo to enlarge We all have our failures in life; some great and others small. One of my relatively small failures was buying a ca...
Tuesday, July 03, 2012

What's in a name?

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click photo to enlarge Names are rather like hairstyles: many people want to change the one they have. Parents who give their children m...
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Shard March update

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click photo to enlarge A couple of days in a cloudy, rain-swept London allowed me to have two walks into and through the city and the op...
Sunday, November 27, 2011

Gotobed East

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click photo to enlarge First names, often called Christian names, originated in a number of ways. Many are simply descriptive. For examp...
Friday, February 11, 2011

To get on, get a name

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click photo to enlarge It's well known that if you want to be a successful popular beat combo or even a solo artiste then you need to pe...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

A kaleidoscope of beach huts

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click photos to enlarge "Beach huts have become something of a photographic cliche for UK-based snappers." Or so I said in April ...
Monday, March 08, 2010

New Guinea Busy Lizzie

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click photo to enlarge According to the Office for National Statistics seven of the 100 most popular names given to girls born in 2007 in t...
Monday, February 11, 2008

The Stump

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click photo to enlarge In 1851 the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations opened in Hyde Park, London. It was housed in a ...