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Sunny Scottish Sky

As you head into Edinburgh from Haymarket Station, the busy main road passes between two crescents, where the splash of green garden and bright trees lighten your walk and prepare you for […]

Jazzy Princess

Ffestiniog Railway’s first steam locomotive to pull passenger trains was this Princess, who was constructed in 1863 by George England & Co.in London.  As time passed, both needs and technology grew and […]

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 […]

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 […]

Golden Face

  A colourful note: goldenrod colour is named after the goldenrod flowers, a plant that has had a variety of health uses.  In many areas it has acted as a traditional […]