F is for F7777473
Posted on March 18, 2017
This is the serial number of the old Singer sewing machine that we acquired last year. It’s possible to look up these numbers online, and we discovered that this particular machine was made in Clydebank, Scotland, sometime between January and June 1917, so it is now an authentic antique.
Thursday Doors: Confolens gates
Posted on March 16, 2017
To leaven the weekly diet of doors, here are a few of the interesting gates that the Charente town of Confolens has to offer, in ascending order of impressiveness.
A symphony in green:
My personal favourite – a study in symmetry:
This grand looking edifice is just behind the church:
And here are the gates of the Hotel de Ville (Town Hall). It was just after taking this photograph that my doorscursion was cut short by an unexpected collision with the pavement outside the Market Hall, in the same square.
Thursday Doors 16 March 2017
Weekly Photo Challenge: Atop
Posted on March 15, 2017
Take a ride in the glass lift that’s now inside the bell-tower of the church and you will find yourself atop the medieval town of Sarlat, in the Dordogne, with matchless views over the tops of the old buildings:
Macro Moments: Week 34 – Bobbin Winder
Posted on March 15, 2017
This week, another close-up of part of the mechanism of our vintage Singer sewing machine. This is a detail of the bobbin winder. It looks to be in pretty good shape for something that’s exactly a hundred years old this year.
Macro Moments Week 34
Tuesdays of Texture: Pineapple
Posted on March 14, 2017
This is what I believe is known in common parlance as the rough end of a pineapple:
Mundane? Or should that be mundrain?
Posted on March 13, 2017
I spotted this ornate water spout and drain cover in the old part of the small French port of Honfleur:
Mundane Mondays #100
C is for Ceiling
Posted on March 10, 2017
The fresco on the ceiling of the Collègiale church in St Junien is very faded, so you’re not missing much by seeing it only in monochrome:
Thursday Doors: Confolens (2)
Posted on March 9, 2017
As promised last week, another instalment of doors from Confolens, this time featuring ones that have had at least some care and attention within living memory.
Starting with these white ones:
Bonus points for a door within a door?
This one, with the attractive ironwork, is the former residence of a local physician:
A closer look at the plaque above the door (no need for a translation) suggests that he was a good man:
This house is unoccupied, although doesn’t seem to have been for too long:
Next week, how about some gates for a change?
Thursday Doors 9 March 2017
Weekly Photo Challenge: Wish
Posted on March 9, 2017
“And you: what’s your dream?”
This graffito was spotted on a wall in the city of Limoges.
Tuesdays of Texture: Coin
Posted on March 7, 2017
On a wet afternoon last week I was roaming the house with my macro lens and got this close-up image, which revealed the interesting texture of the central inset.
We must have picked up this Jordanian half-dinar coin when we visited Petra, almost five years ago.
Don’t get too excited: it’s worth about 70 US cents, or £0.65.
Tuesdays of Texture
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