More vintage stuff that belonged to my grandparents. [pictures]
Posts under ‘miscellanea’
vintage boxes
My mum dug some old stuff out for me to take photos of, and I posted some photos on Instagram, so I thought I'd post them here too, because I'm rather smitten with the designs. These were all originally amongst my grandparents' things (except the first one; someone sent it to me from America), and I thought it would be interesting to see if the products or companies still exist.
for the birds
photos of bird designs
picture as placeholder
There's a good reason I'm posting this photo of Stacy and Andrew from ten years ago, but I haven't written the post yet. Is that cryptic enough?
photos from 1930s Spain
A while ago, my mum was clearing out some boxes when she found this tiny little envelope full of old photos that my grandparents took when they were in Spain. I think most of these were taken in Barcelona, although the envelope came from Alicante, and was stuffed full of negatives that were clearly developed in a different place. I haven't attempted to scan any of the negatives, but here are some of the photos….
I might just disappear
So, it turns out my domain name expires tomorrow (August 3rd) — I thought I had another week to get it sorted out.
Why did plague masks have beaks?
This may seem a completely random question, but it's been on my mind since I reread Castle Waiting a couple of weeks ago. One of the characters is a doctor who has experience of the plague, and wears the mask at all times. The question came up again today when I was browsing Will's flickrstream [...]
superheroic laundry
Someone found the place where Superman washes his costumes: Do you think he takes in services washes from other superheroes? I wonder what kind of soap he uses; I bet most of those costumes have some serious special care requirements considering what they usually end up going through. Maybe he just uses his super-breath to [...]
Get Excited And Bake Things
Get excited, eat cake things.
Things I learned last week, in no particular order:
1. Gareth thinks I update this thing too often. But I only update it once or twice a week, not every day, so I guess he'll have to make more of an effort to read it, or he'll just have to keep on marking it all as read on his Google Reader. Sorry, Gareth. (It's [...]
