Category: video of the day

  • I found this postcard in an old shoebox. John Redburn is my Great-Great-Grandfather.  As far as I know John Redburn (middle bottom row?) was married to Ann Abbott in 1851 somewhere in the Bethnal Green Spitalfield area.  I have no idea when this postcard photo was taken, would love to know, but it was sent out…

  • Bit old fashioned but, Mr P.  digged, cleared, sowed, tended, watered, waited and now he is seeing the fruits of his labour, and I am getting to eat them! There is nothing in the world quite like the taste of a vegetable or fruit that has been picked and eaten in the same day. Last…

  •  I know, I know. The world is crashing down around us. Young people are being ‘made examples of’  because the crime they committed happened at a highly charged time and place. How come no bankers, (the first time I wrote this I put bakers..ha ha) or politicians were ‘made examples of’ in the same way.…

  • Well actually, they did not, all the gear was packed up after a nearly 4 hour end of week concert. All the goodbyes last night got a bit emotional for me,  gulp ..quite normal for me to have a little blub and then not be able to stop….can’t keep it in…7 days of being with…