19 Posts from October 2025

Mrs Beeton, Open Participants 2021, The Network, tradition

Christmas Pudding

302/365 Christmas Pudding flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license Christmas is coming, the [vegetarian] goose is getting fat Please put a penny in the old man’s hat If you haven’t got a penny, then a ha’penny will do If you haven’t got a ha’penny, then God bless you! Stir-Up Sunday is not till No 23rd this year, but it’s a dreich day and I’m off work with a cold so I thought it […]

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Fair Flora, legend, myth, Open Participants 2021, The Network

Fair Flora

296/365 Fair Flora flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license When I was about eight years old our parents sold our family home and bought a plot of land that had once been part of an orchard. We had a static caravan which was towed onto a corner of the land and there we all lived – mum, dad and 4 children aged 8-4 – for 16 months while we built our new house […]

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