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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 […]

Indigo Mosque

A colourful note: the colour indigo was named after the indigo dye derived from the Indigofera tinctoria plant.  India is believed to be the oldest centre of indigo dyeing in […]

Kiwi in Istanbul

  A colourful note: In 2003, to mark their 100th anniversary, Crayola asked the public to name four new colours and vote out four other shades.  Inch Worm was one of […]

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