A really delicate commemorative set produced for the Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1897. There are sadly no marking to determine the maker. I like the picture of Queen Victoria on the cup, which I think shows how remarkable she was for the times.
I can not recall where we purchased this, but I suspect that this was another find at Honiton.
Submitted as part of Tea Cups Tuesday hosted by Artful Affirmations
After having a disturbed night I still woke early, how annoying is that? Anyway, I popped the kettle on for a cup of tea then headed back to bed with my latest read.
At just 10 am the church bells started ringing; and I pondered on how lovely it was to hear, and the very fact that after hundreds of years we still call people to church in the same way. I imagined the townspeople of the 19th Century hurrying from their humble homes to the church upon the call of the bells, and reflected on what the church meant to people two centuries ago. I have no local connections and after 15 years still do not think of Devon as my home. My roots are firmly in Surrey and I pondered on the activities of my ancestors. The fact that up and down the land, bells would have called parishioners to church in the same old way and I think that is quite remarkable.
Taking part in NaBloPoMo for Septmber. NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month. The Goal is for participants to write a post each day for a month. To help inspire bloggers, NaBloPoMo allocates a theme for each month. The theme for September is Return.
This week has been a busy one. I spent several hours reading and reviewing several blogs as one of the Judges for Book Bloggers Awareness Week, which starts next week. I am looking forward to that and hope to participate with the blogging prompts.
I also completed reading The Reverse Immigrant, Return to my Sicilian Roots by Alfred M Zappala. I really enjoyed this book and found it to be apart from interesting and enlightening with a lovely mix of humour and fact thought provoking, given that I am half Sicilian. You can read my review HERE.
I am looking forward to the second book in the series from Alfred which is due to be released in the US at the end of next week.
I have caught up very slightly with my review postings and still have some to do. I seem to have lost a few that I know I posted which is irritating, thankfully I have back ups and need to repost.
I have spent some time pondering on a small project which I hope to release for viewing in early October. Based upon a project that I shelved about 10 years ago. So far all seems to be going well and I am looking forward to its blog release. Details will be appearing on the Anglers Rest blog in due course.
Well, that is it for another week. I hope everyone has a good one. Things on my work front have started to improve and when things are down you can only go up!
I had fun this week looking through my collection seeing what I had to fit the collection. Here are a few favourites.
I especially like the Antarctic stamp, which I had forgotten I had. Apologies, it seems to be slightly blurred!
I love the Australia set produced celebrating the First Fleet and the UK fish set.
Submitted as Sunday Stamps hosted by Viridian’s Postcard Blog
Submitted to the Book Blogger Hop
My mum has been working on a quilt for several years and has recently returned to it to finish it, before it makes it’s new home in my spare room. Over the course of the last few weeks, inspired by an article in one of the UK quilting magazines we saw an advertisement for a local patchwork & quilting shop.
Serendipty is a local shop, originally situated in the Dartmoor border town of Bovey Tracy it has recently changed hands and then moved venues to just outside of Newton Abbot. Although quite small, the stock offered, along with friendliness and the class facilities is very good and as I left yesterday I picked up a brochure of the classes offered. We didn’t manage to leave though without buying a few items!
Taking part in NaBloPoMo for Septmber. NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month. The Goal is for participants to write a post each day for a month. To help inspire bloggers, NaBloPoMo allocates a theme for each month. The theme for September is Return.
Last weekend here in the UK was a holiday, which meant an extra day off work, well it would have done except that I worked last Saturday.
On Sunday we had a joint of roast pork. As customary, I planned to have bubble and squeak on Monday using the left over vegetables. I then remembered that my Grandmother used to make Rissoles with the meat using a mincer.
I still have her original mincer, but elected to buy mince lamb and use that instead.
Weekend Cooking is a weekly event and hosted by Beth Fish Reads
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The theme for September NaBloPoMo is Return and I did wonder, when I signed up two things. Firstly would I manage it and secondly even if I did manage to post everyday could I use the theme across every posting. I wondered that last week and as I write this post a week later I still wonder.
There is rarely a post on the Anglers Rest blog about the day job. This is my corner of escapism and I work in a field where confidentiality is paramount. That said, I spoke with someone yesterday who has been a client of the business that I work for. The business that he worked in has made him redundant, another casualty of the recession.
Whilst redundancy is not nice, he worked in the field of caring for vulnerable adults in a residential setting. What is even worse, as the receivers and administrators moved in to calculate the losses and salvage what they could, is that 15 vulnerable adults lost their homes and care staff. In some cases those residents had lived there a lifetime and the staff were the only family some of the residents had known.
I thought something was morally wrong with this situation when I learnt of it a month ago, and when my thoughts returned to it yesterday, as the organisation closed its doors, I still believe something is morally wrong. Sometimes, gain and loss is more, much more than about money.
Taking part in NaBloPoMo for Septmber. NaBloPoMo stands for National Blog Posting Month. The Goal is for participants to write a post each day for a month. To help inspire bloggers, NaBloPoMo allocates a theme for each month. The theme for September is Return.
This happy little chappie is made at Lamlash Pottery on the Isle of Arran in South West Scotland. Stuart bought this for me about three years ago when we celebrated our wedding anniversary on the island.
There is an island off the coast of North Devon, about two hours from where we live that has a colony of Puffins. I have always wanted to see one in real life, so perhaps I will one day….
Simple Pleasures is hosted by A Collection of This & That
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It was moved to this site on 18th December 2015 when the counter was reset -:(
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