I grew up in a beautiful old house on a road named Elder Road in Bramley, Leeds.
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A brisk walk along the river this morning, in an attempt to avoid the mid day heat, brought me into contact with a small feast of blackberries along the way…
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I wanted to write about my mini-lily pond because it is a mini-miracle.
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Mum told me each morning the Rock Rose has fresh flowers and each evening it loses it's flowers. I went out at intervals to film the flowers blooming and then their petals falling until at dusk
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Dad’s mini allotment manages to provide some of their vegetables such as runner beans, onions (which we finished off a couple of months ago from last August) tomatoes (which also seem to feed family and friends too as they are never ending) and beetroot, which sadly didn’t come to anything this year. On here are photos and a video - logged from March - June 2020. Part 2 to come!
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It was the Great Hedge Laying Trip last Thursday. I’d taken myself and husband Neil, cameraman, up to Richmond overnight. We had no idea where we were as we’d just followed Stephen in our car to somewhere near Bedale in North Yorkshire the next morning.
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I had a go at wood engraving, and I loved it!
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Interview with Naomi creator of ‘These Two Hands’
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I followed Emma in to her studio to see some of the recent work from her students and it was really good to see such fantastic pieces of art work and imagination set permanently into glass.
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William Lazenby had trained in Birmingham during the revival of stained glass around the time of the Pre Raphaelites, William Morris and when the Gothic Churches were being rebuilt.
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A couple of years ago mum suggested we visit the Stained Glass Centre in Cayton, so off we tootled and were amazed to find it nestled away down a quiet little single lane and part of a farm.
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Ernest John Holmes, my dad, was born in 1945, and spent his working life as a Heating Engineer and Plumber crawling about under other people’s houses putting central heating systems in……
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Since launching ‘Carry Forth Tradition’ I’ve been communicating with lots of like minded people, and really pleased to hear that I am not the only one (I knew this already) who wishes to do something like this - gather people and traditions together and preserve or revive them.
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