The “Gift of the Gael” is a replica Viking Longship based around a Gaelic adaptation of a Norse design, the Birlinn, also known as a Scottish Galley, developed in the Hebrides and Western Isles of Scotland. Viking settlers would have commonly used this design as a small cargo ship for Read more…
Yorkshire Tea There’s nothing at all odd about drinking Yorkshire Tea when in Yorkshire but I couldn’t resist posting this picture as an OddBall Challenge. I took this picture a few weeks ago in a very traditional teashop in the village of Saltaire in Yorkshire. Even though there was glorious Read more…
Blackpool, one of the seaside resorts on our Fylde coast, has not one, not two, but THREE piers. A walk along any of them in summer or winter is always a delight. In winter they are deserted with all the sideshows shuttered up, whilst in the holiday season they are Read more…
In response to WordPress Photo Challenge: Spare & Cee’s OddBall Challenge: Last week we visited the Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge where I saw this chair on the pavement outside a shop in the main street. It was obviously surplus to requirements as seating. If we’re back there in a Read more…
It doesn’t get much more OddBall for Cee’s Challenge than cashmere espadrilles. Are they the latest designer “must have” or what? Certainly at this shop in Malta there was no cashmere anywhere in evidence, but there were plenty of espadrilles in every size and colour. Perhaps the sign about cashmere Read more…