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Debbie Smyth

Flags Aflutter

Here’s a small selection of flying flags in a few of the places I’ve had the pleasure of visiting recently. Linked to Flutter Copyright Debbie Smyth, 15 February 2016     […]

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  Hex colour ref:  ff1dce A colourful note:  this shade of hot magenta was formulated by Crayola in 1990.  To add some colour confusion , there had been a Hot Magenta Fluorescent crayon […]
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Tonight’s Forecast

I’ll leave you to guess what this bar specialises in!  And it has won awards too. Linked to Odd Ball Copyright Debbie Smyth, 14 February 2016  

Queen Victoria’s Holiday Spot

Built in 1790 or thereabouts, Pierremont Hall was built to the designs of Samuel Pepys Cockerell, great-grand-nephew of Samuel Pepys the Diarist.  In 1827, the widowed Duchess of Kent and her little […]

Kiss Kiss

“The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Linked to Life Imitates […]

Six Short, Seventh Long and Smoochy

Wondering where the smoochy bit comes from? – then listen to this perfect accompaniment: Seven Kisses soundtrack copyright Getty Images International, licensed to Travel with Intent, do not copy or re-use If […]

King Dumplings Available

  A colourful note: from a colour psychology viewpoint, green brings equilibrium, it balances the head with the heart; it is the colour of growth, spring and renewal; it renews and restores depleted energy.  And […]

Vulnerable Kiss

In 1889, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin created the marble sculpture, known now as The Kiss.  It was originally named for the woman it depicts, Francesca da Rimini, the noblewoman from Dante’s Inferno, who falls in love […]