Spades
I love funny little museums, the Pencil Museum in Keswick, Cumbria, is wonderful. It gives a fascinating glimpse into the history of that so commonly used writing tool, the humble pencil. Pencils had a...
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Lois:For some reason although I published this today it hasn’t appeared! Originally posted on Lois Elsden: I love funny little museums, the Pencil Museum in Keswick, Cumbria, is wonderful. It gives a...
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While visiting a museum in the Netherlands recently I saw this spade and it reminded me of the Spade Museum in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. This is a post I wrote about it: One of the most moving...
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I love museums, especially little ones such as the Spade Museum at Patterson’s Spade Mill in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, or the Pencil Museum in the Lake District. We went to the British Museum...
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I don’t actually have a new spade, however I found a poem I wrote some time ago, just a rough draft about spades. I don’t quite know why I am so fascinated by them; it all began when we visited...
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