Monthly Archives: December 2014
SHEDNOTES 37: Why Jeremy’s coat looks right on Nigel
Ian Jack, Gdn 20.12.14, added an observation worth recording to the sociology of clothes … When Jeremy Thorpe died earlier this month, I remembered his coat: slim-fitting and light brown, with a velvet collar in a deeper shade, it made … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 36: A Filofacts of quotes on Family …
Tim Lott offered a nice collection of unlikely observations about family in the Guardian of 20.12.14, which will go into The Shed’s collection of quotes for all occasions – currently filed as Filofacts pages, pending further re-organisation. For more of … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 34: MAINLY ON ERMA FRANKLIN
The Shed’s cuttings collection, now going proudly digital, includes an interesting obituary of Erma Franklin, sister of Aretha, written by Spencer Leigh and published in The Independent 14.9.2002. It goes to Online & Off, the Shed’s store of music programmes … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 33: A Filofacts on Garden Tools
The Shed wants a Filofacts on Gardening Tools, starting with Monty Don’s favourites, published Seven Mag of Teleg 21.4.13 … Mattock I met a man from Central Africa who ran a five-acre smallholding and his only piece of kit was … Continue reading
TAVISTOCK GOOSEY FAIR
1000 words, published The Bridge, local magazine for Horrabridge, near Tavistock, Devon, December 2014. Goosey Fair: An Incomer’s View October blows in and a man in the pub is telling us about his car being broken into on Whitchurch Road. … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 32: A Filofacts on: recipes: field cooking
The Shed would always want to be ready to cook for a platoon if called on and had the following recipes for 22 transcribed from a clipping from the British Army Cookbook, 1914, lately reprinted by Amberley Publishing … PRESERVED … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 31: NOTES ON DEATH
File under F for Funerals According to The Week magazine, 29.11.14: “Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, from Monty Python’s Life Of Brian, is now the most popular soundtrack at British funerals, ending the 11-year reign of Frank … Continue reading
SHEDNOTES 29: A Filofacts on Jack Aubrey
An appreciation by Lucy Eyre, in Guardian 29.11.14, of the Patrick O’Brian books, starring hearty sailor Jack Aubrey and his oddball scientific friend Stephen Maturin, reminds The Shed that Christmas is coming – and also that The Shed’s own ideas … Continue reading
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