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Olive Shutters

  Hex colour reference:  #BAB86C A colourful note:   the yellowish-green shade known as olive green, appeared in crayon form in Crayola’s 1903 range.  Named after unripe or green olives, it is […]

Edinburgh Memories

I’m back in Edinburgh tomorrow night (weather permitting) so here’s a pleasant reminder for me – a gorgeous late December night. Copyright Debbie Smyth, 3 March 2016   Linked to Skywatch Friday  

Blue Boy or Doctor Who?

The Exeter Free Grammar School opened in 1633, on the upper floor of the medieval buildings of St John’s Hospital, which had stood on the south side of the High Street […]

Summer Greens in Salzburg

Hex colour reference:  #30BA8F A colourful note:  Mountain meadow appeared on the Crayola crayon labels in 1998, a truly descriptive name for an actual shade that had appeared as a True […]