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Golden Morning

A colourful note: use of the word gold is sometimes replaced with golden, to help distinguish from metallic gold.  The first recorded use of golden as a colour name in English was […]

Toast on Legs

This reclining toast with green boots appeared a few times on the walk along the beach into Margate from Broadstairs. Linked to Monday Murals Copyright Debbie Smyth, 8 February 2016    

Solar Time

Sundials, both old and new, pop up over the world, but Austria seems to be particularly fond of them.  They have a Sundial Data Bank and the 2000 figures report 3009 […]

Old Time Telephony

This is a fine old telephone box dating back to the 1920s, I believe.  The first official street box was the K1 kiosk, that appeared in 1921.  The design wasn’t […]