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What a good picture this is.  'The Mornings Catch,' by James Clark Hook, 1877. This tells us much about the rough lives out forefath...

Windows 11 is sitting on my 'Upgrade' awaiting introduction.  I am not sure if I ought to go ahead with this, I am awaiting news of ...

How wonderful to get back to work and find nobody noticed I was off.  Having looked around and discovered where things had been moved to,...

Another day another few hours of fun and jollity at the museum.  The term 'fun and jollity' is not to be taken seriously!  It was...

You and I may think it is still November but the people who make money plan such things consider this the right time to start the Christ...

We drinkies from now until Tuesday for me.  I am assured I will not be required at the museum till then, the painting is finished even if...

Here is a picture of a pretty girl by a window. (1862) She is reading a book while waiting for the carpet fitter to arrive!

Unbelievable!  The sun shone once again today, and I was too hot walking home this afternoon! Jings, crivvens, and help ma boab! ...

Braintree Museum I dragged my emaciated body around to the Museum this afternoon having been summoned to attend by the lovely lass ...

It's one of those weeks. The things that have impressed themselves on my mind, the museum, dead soldiers, Rangers men lying in the...

London 1890.  There is not much difference between the traffic then and the traffic now.  People meander across the road in a simil...

Brenda Howard I spent a delightful couple of hours this morning listening to some knowledgeable women discussing Victorian life....