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Humour (48 of 365)

9 May 2011 By The Girl Behind Leave a Comment

Another of my Blackpool pictures; this is MrC on Blackpool pier. That look is the one he has when I’m getting him to do something he doesn’t really want to do and is thinking I’m a bit on the bonkers side!

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Ultimate Thrill (47 of 365)

9 May 2011 By The Girl Behind Leave a Comment

One of the rollercoasters at Blackpool. Too scary for me to even contemplate!

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Beneath (41 of 365)

5 May 2011 By The Girl Behind Leave a Comment

Beneath the pier at Blackpool.

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Where I Am From

16 July 2011 By The Girl Behind 40 Comments

I’m from a lifetime of Marks and Spencers underwear, from last season’s clothes bought on sale and from the dizzy limit of wealth being enough spare cash to buy a jacket from Jaeger. I’m from a favourite cousin’s hand-me-down sailor dress, and from a family of women who each in turn convinced themselves that they [...]

Class of 1988

2 September 2011 By The Girl Behind 21 Comments

An almost audible cyber-sigh passes around Facebook on Sunday teatimes when one of the Class of 1988 announces that they’ve put line-dried sheets on the bed and will be turning in early. Someone fanatically houseproud chimes in to say that they’ve ironed their bed linen, and we laugh through a debate about which of us [...]

Potato

20 September 2011 By The Girl Behind 16 Comments

A potato. Kicked into the little bonfire and pulled out an hour or so later with a bit of green stick that happened to be left on the ground. Burned potato skin pulled open with a rusty fork. The same fork that had stirred the curried beans warmed up as a side dish. Beans curried [...]

Faces – 6 of 366

18 January 2012 By The Girl Behind 11 Comments

An assortment of the very strange faces from my 1970s version of “Guess Who?”. I’m comforted to see that the game seems to have been updated and the current faces are a little less sinister than these ones. Yes, it’s already 18th January and I’m still only at picture number 6.

The Best Gift Ever

20 December 2011 By The Girl Behind 10 Comments

I was a peculiar child. Peculiar in that bookwormy, writery, reading-absolutely-everything-I-could kind of way. I’m guessing that I’m amongst similarly peculiar friends here on the blogosphere. We – my sister and I – always had lots of presents at Christmas, but the ones that stand out the most are the strange ones, the ones that [...]

Most Important Advice

24 November 2011 By The Girl Behind 9 Comments

Our Table Topics theme at Toastmasters last week was based around the advice that we’d give to our 10-year-old selves, given the opportunity to go back and have a word. Table Topics are normally given quickly, moments before having to stand up and speak with no preparation. They’re about as ‘life on the edge’ as [...]

Making Music

29 November 2011 By The Girl Behind 9 Comments

Do you see the concentration on that little face? The hands resting on the keys that, at first glance, look like the effortless hand-over-hand movement of a concert pianist? The beginning of family lessons in music, because we’re from Yorkshire and there was no point throwing good money away on an actual teacher. Learning mostly [...]

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