Monthly Archives: February 2013

February Collage Photo Festival – Day 22

This is a recipe for Wheat Wine. The letter is from my Great Grandmother who has already appeared during the festival on day 6. This was written in around 1965. This was written in the days when Royal Mail used … Continue reading

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Guest Post – Delancey Stewart, Author of Through a Dusty Window: New York City Stories 1910-2001

What was it that prompted you to write Through a Dusty Window: New York City Stories 1910-2001? Through a Dusty Window was inspired by my time living in New York City in my early twenties. I was a West Coast kid, … Continue reading

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Review – Through a Dusty Window: New York City Stories 1910-2001 by Delancey Stewart

This book had a rather familiar feel to it. The setting is a brownstone in New York. The same building features in this collection of fictional stories, each story set 10 years apart and tells a fictional account of the … Continue reading

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February Collage Photo Festival – Day 21

This photograph was taken in the Autumn of 1982 according to a friend of mine she recalls it was a Friday afternoon! This is at Guildford County School which was my senior school. The structure of the school was interesting, … Continue reading

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Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

Until I signed up to take part in the PBC I had never heard of this book or author. I ordered my copy from the library and waited for the email telling me it had arrived. Then on 22nd January … Continue reading

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February Collage Photo Festival – Day 20

This is the year after the photograph taken yesterday, which makes this Spring 1976 or so. The teacher was called Mrs Cressfield and boy could she be fierce. Her speciality was maths and she would become so angry she would … Continue reading

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February Collage Photo Festival – Day 19

This is my very first school photograph taken in the summer term of 1975. This was at Sandfield School at Guildford. By the time of this photo I had been at the school almost a year and I remained here … Continue reading

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February Collage Photo Festival – Day 18

Today’s photograph is of my Great Aunt Glad, my Grandfather’s sister and sister to Rose who appeared here yesterday and her husband my Uncle Frank. This photograph was taken around 1960. Aunt was born in 1901 and Frank in 1899. … Continue reading

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February Collage Photo Festival – Day 17

Today’s photograph is of my Great Aunt Rose, who appeared earlier in the festival on day 13. This is the last photograph I have of her, taken in 1993. Aunt at this point was still very very alert. Her body … Continue reading

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Sepia Saturday – 164

I searched several times for photographs in our family collection. Nothing with an tortoise, and I can not see one that I had of my father in law, where I was sure he was smoking a pipe, anyway here is … Continue reading

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