The road to the old quarry is also where the owner built houses for the workers. Innovative or just common sense?

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Worth the poor sleep to get up and make some tea, just to see this.

Grief is love with no place to go.

Jamie Anderson

Said Bear is gently telling me it's time to get up and do something useful.

Happy Sunday y'all 😄

To be fair, this door hasn't been maintained in years. But it's interesting to see how the varnish is flaking off in the sun.

📷 Google Pixel 8 Pro - Telephoto Sensor - Moonshot through a tree - Throwback April 2025

The flowers were going to be thrown away and I found this lead crystal vase for a quid. Today's first golden moment. There were several more to come.

went to art class today. draw anything with eyes shut. I did my ginger plant from memory. then paint it with your eyes open. only 3 primary colors available. I had sun fun !

acrylic with bristle round brush on paper. lines done in pencil and vivid marker.

blown glass by David Kaplan and Annica Sandström, Galashiels.

The technique, Overhang, is complicated. Look it up if you're interested.

There's an interesting, representative collection of glass at Kelvingrove but it is very poorly lit. I liked this piece but wasn't inspired to linger.

It's letter-writing time, so it's best to make sure everything is ready. before I begin.

Flickr helps me to safely process all sorts things.

Ever closer

A pretty porcelain pedestal from around 1890, on display at the Crossness Pumping Station.

It makes a nice change from the ubiquitous plain white of today.

If you're interested, the label reads:

Porcelaine Anglaise Cauldon

E.P. concessionaire Paris

Grand Prix 1889

Cauldon was an established porcelain manufacturer based in Stoke, but like many businesses over time, it changed hands several times before disappearing. Cauldon made some charming tableware from around 1904, which is quite sought-after.

I took this on a Canon Powershot G10; I'm in two minds now about charging the battery - I am sure my phone takes a better picture.

Hiding behind a lamp post at the top of Market Street lurks this benchmark. One of those signs of "if you can't measure it, you can't manage it" from the 1840 benchmark survey of England.

Maybe because it is shielded from wear, the broad arrow on this one is especially clear.

Student flats. There are many buildings like this in town. And new apartment blocks near completion. Overseas students pay top dollar. It's the education industry that replaced the defunct lino factory that keeps the town solvent.

Carrots

Red onion

Garlic

Oil

salt and pepper

Mendi spices

Parsley

Coconut milk

Chicken stock

make the base

then add carrots

cook 5 mins

then add stock

boil then simmer

blend

then add coconut milk

garnish with parsley

30 mins start to finish

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In Oxfam, Lancaster.

Made in Birmingham .

A new light for the kitchen. That flat brilliance from LEDs. Now I can see what I'm doing!

A gentle walk along the canal. I call these flowers flags, but that's a bit old fashioned now, apparently. But yellow iris sounds too prosaïc for these beauties.

And the eponymous book is worth a read, too.

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Walking along the river embankment, no cars to disrupt a clear evening.

A fine building that will soon become student flats.

Bibby was a Liverpool entrepreneur whose firm included a shipping business. The company has diversified and is still running.

They used to fly a plain red company flag on their ships but added the family emblem after a ship was impounded at Hamburg in 1928...it was thought the ship was a hostile communist come to do nefarious things!

I just liked the look of this tower, with the rather grand cupola (or whatever it's called).

It all looked a bit dreary, so I glammed up the lighting a bit.

Japanese anemone in the Quakers' garden.

Two each of eggs, bacon, and sauces.

That's about 1/3 of my protein requirement.

A bevvy of police BMWs parked at the top of the mews. The range of specialist vehicles here is bewildering. At least these look jolly.

My Laverda-riding partner used to joke about my bike all the time: slow but sure. I still miss that bike 😅

Sometimes things on my windowsill just come together and make me smile.

By L. S. Lowry

Rusty hasp with blue padlock on a blue wooden door.

Phone image.

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Sliced red skin potatoes

Sliced red onion

Grated red Leicester cheese

1/2 cup water

Aromat

Garlic

in an oblongs 8 inch dish

cover

20 mins in the microwave on full

enough for 5 or 6 servings

nice with a salad and glass of wine 😁

Haworthiopsis attenuata. Originally from South Africa; a succulent, not a cactus.

Several pups and the pot is pretty full. Time to repot will be in the spring when the roots reawaken.

This one is about 4 years old, and with gentle care should go on for about 50 years. I guess I'll have to include it in my will.

Adrian Hardy Howarth (1767-1833) was an English botanist from Hull, who later settled in Little Chelsea (now absorbed into Fulham). He described these plants in his book, 'Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum' (London, 1812) and which you can read online. It's a good read.