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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.
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:
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.
B is for Bear – and Bathroom
Posted on March 3, 2017
Looks like we’ll be going through the alphabet over the next few months with Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge. Naturally enough, we start with A or B, so as a special introductory offer here are two Bs for the price of one.
I freely admit that it was a little unsettling the first time I went into this bathroom at a hotel in Paris to be confronted by a Polar Bear. Fortunately, it was only an image on the door of the shower cubicle and I should have been forewarned because I’d already seen one on the wall over the bed.
And that’s really weird.
Collectors’ Corner
Posted on February 24, 2017
Someone in the commune is a very keen collector of old cameras. This is a small sample of those he exhibited at an expo in the Salle Polyvalente last November:
Road, Side
Posted on February 17, 2017
A different perspective on this litle track that runs off the road between here and the next hamlet:
Shining through
Posted on February 10, 2017
You know those glass bricks¹ you can get to go in your bathroom? Well this is what can happen when you shine a light through one of them:
¹ this is what I’m talking about:
A musician lives here
Posted on February 3, 2017
A different take on window bars (sic) on this house in nearby St. Junien
Holding Up
Posted on January 27, 2017
Regular visitors to this blog may already know that our house was a major renovation project – which is why its working title is ‘Brokedown Palace’.
The first job our builders had to do was to stop the front wall from falling off. Eventually they worked their way round to the back, where they just had to stop it falling down.
Fortunately, they managed that too:
‘The Bus Came By..’
Posted on January 20, 2017
To be perfectly honest, as a general rule I don’t find ‘public transport’ a particularly interesting subject for photography. However, as this subject has come round again in Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge it gives me an opportunity to post this picture, taken in downtown Sydney.
As an image, I admit it doesn’t really have much to offer, but if you happen to be a Deadhead it raises a smile, assuming that you are familiar with the lyrics of the Grateful Dead’s second-set improvisational vehicle (sic), ‘The Other One’:
Escapin’ through the lily fields
I came across an empty space
It trembled and exploded
Left a bus stop in its place
The bus came by and I got on
That’s when it all began
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