This prize winning photo reminds me of those awful glitter paint on black velvet wall hangings you used to get in Turkish or Indian restaurants in the 70s or 80s
Is there any way of tracking down folk who were involved with the museum @KT53 ?... there ought to be records in the county archives if it was run properly ... and then you could trace what had happened to the things in the museum ... in most cases they're passed to another museum.
I don't know @Dovefromabove. The museum is about 400 miles away. It's not so much the fact that it was passed on to a museum, as the fact that it wasn't hers to give away without speaking to me or Mum first. It was effectively Mum's property, but it made sense (or seemed to) to have all 'family' items held together. In hindsight we shouldn't have been surprised. When a previous family member died, a silver Georgian teapot was bequeathed to a somebody. The cousin agreed to pass it on. Mum discovered it some years later in a cupboard of the same cousin.
I've just been to the pharmacy to get all the lotions and potions. As soon as I mentioned chicken pox people started to rapidly move away. Another mum came in as I was talking to the pharmacist and asked if there was CP going around as her kid had started to get a rash too.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
You'd have thought by now, given we oldies can now get a shingles vaccine, that there'd be a vaccine against chicken pox. Clearly most kids are not badly affected but it can be serious for adults who have no immunity from childhood and get chicken pox or shingles in later years.
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You'd have thought by now, given we oldies can now get a shingles vaccine, that there'd be a vaccine against chicken pox. Clearly most kids are not badly affected but it can be serious for adults who have no immunity from childhood and get chicken pox or shingles in later years.
There is a vaccine here in the UK, but it's not routine, (on the NHS) only given to close contacts to someone particularly vulnerable.
We have just come back from the DIY shop, we were getting paint. We only wanted an off white but chalky finish. It seemed every one of the test colours we liked was not in stock in the size required. We must have been there nearly 40 mins before I realised there was a little mark in the corner of the test cards denoting the ones in stock. So finally looked at the tins on the shelf , then found the matching test pots , which were little screw topped glass jars, we found we had to discreetly open the jars and look at the content to get a true impression. Had to settle for one in stock tho not our first choice as even the assistant didn't seem to know how long it would take to get if we ordered, click and collect. We need it by Tuesday.
While looking for a new book this week I came across a book of birdwatching walks in my local area. It's a really useful guide and I read up about some very local walks last night. Today my trip to the pharmacist took me right past one of the quick walks so I tried it out. I don't think I've ever seen more litter on a walk in my whole life. It would take an army of people days to clear it all up but it looks like people would be dumping just as fast as they could pick it up. I just think about how depressing it must be to have that as your daily walk
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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This prize winning photo reminds me of those awful glitter paint on black velvet wall hangings you used to get in Turkish or Indian restaurants in the 70s or 80s
I don't know @Dovefromabove. The museum is about 400 miles away. It's not so much the fact that it was passed on to a museum, as the fact that it wasn't hers to give away without speaking to me or Mum first. It was effectively Mum's property, but it made sense (or seemed to) to have all 'family' items held together. In hindsight we shouldn't have been surprised. When a previous family member died, a silver Georgian teapot was bequeathed to a somebody. The cousin agreed to pass it on. Mum discovered it some years later in a cupboard of the same cousin.