Holderness, East Yorkshire (UK). Not seen one like this before! It’s very small (pound coin and the more usual find for scale) which makes me think it’s early, but also unusually ornate. I can’t work out the design, possibly a claw on the bowl and some sort of scales/bones on the stem and heel? Has anyone else found one similar or any ideas as to the period?
East Yorkshire, UK. Found in the garden of a Georgian house built c.1800. She looks a bit too pretty to be a Charlotte-type, I think? Plus the leg was found very near the head and is wearing a stocking and was movable unlike the unclothed dolls. I’ve been trying to date it via the hairstyle and am thinking second half of the 19thc but can anyone give me a better idea of the period she dates from?
Not sure whether it’s worth being a moaning Michael about this. Driving to work yesterday, I was seriously tail-gated by a huge delivery lorry for about 5 miles. These are rural, bendy roads that I know really well and drive almost every day so I was doing a good 50mph on the safe bits, then slowing down to the speed limit (40/30) for villages. It’s not uncommon for deer/pheasants etc to run out, plus it’s harvest time and every bend could have a massive tractor round it, so you need your wits about you.
He (actually the truck was so far up my arse I couldn’t see the driver but I’m assuming it was a he) caught me up like a rocket on a straight stretch then constantly stayed practically on top of me with zero stopping distance. When I slowed down to the speed limit, he got even closer. As a woman on my own in a tiny car, I found it so intimidating that I pulled into someone’s driveway as soon as I could for him to get past, then he turned into a small industrial unit a bit further up the lane.
I’ve never complained about anyone’s driving to an employer before but this was so aggressive and dangerous that I want to email the company and tell them. I saw the sign writing on the truck so I know which company it came from. Would I be a dick to get in touch with them?
Edit to add: no dashcams unfortunately but I’ve looked up the freight company and it’s a big national one. I don’t want to get a driver who might have been behind time into serious bother but, given all your responses (bar a couple!), I will let them know. If I’d had to brake for any reason, I’d have been flattened. The speeds I was doing were perfectly normal and legal for the area and this is the first time I’ve ever been tailgated like that! Thanks guys.
I’ve been given this ceramic plaque in a box of random stuff that came from an auction as a job lot. It was in a relatively modern frame and had been stuck to a piece of cardboard with sticky pads, hence the residue on the back! Some elements of the design appear to have been handpainted — the gilding, wreath, flowers and wings.
I assumed it was late 18th/early 19th century (there was also a framed New Exchange in St Petersburg engraving by R Ackerman of the Strand, 1814) and not particularly interesting until I took it out of the frame and found this on the back. I know Robert Adam often used cherubs in his designs — could this be something to do with him? I can’t find any reference to anything like this under his name, nor what the number 26 might mean.
Any ideas?
I have been given an immaculate ten-year-old W1 9kg with TwinDos from someone who had absolutely zero idea how to use it, never read the manual, altered the settings, or ran either of the maintenance programmes. They’d always used their own wash liquid but never disabled the TwinDos so the machine had been trying to run TD every time and has clearly got clogged up due to lack of care. It then sat unused for a year after they’d got a new one (!).
I turned off the TD and used my own stuff this week (really impressed with the cleaning!) as I was getting the maintenance message for Phase 1 for every wash, while I waited for the Miele TD care canister to arrive. I got it today and started the Maintenance cycle. First two goes stopped after a couple of minutes, then it ran a bit longer, then I ran two complete cycles right to the end on both Phases. I marked the level of liquid in the care canister each time so I could see it was going down and it’s almost empty now so it’s clearly getting through the pipes.
Have done a couple of 20 minute washes of a few tea towels etc to test it and they’ve come out clean, smell of the Ultraphase and all looks ok… but there don’t appear to be many suds during the wash and the display is still saying “Insufficient Phase 1 — check wash results”. I’ve tried turning it off at the wall for 10 minutes but still the same message after a wash finishes. They gave me loads of the Ultraphase stuff that they got with the machine so I would like to be able to use the TwinDos system!
Can I refill the care bottle with water and keep trying the Maintenance cycle? Or shall I just give up and disable it again? I can’t really afford an engineer call out at the minute (hence my joy at a free washer!) and I’m not sure what else I can try :/
Took these last week, the old/rambling roses have finished now but they have been glorious this year. One downside of a walled courtyard though is the heat… it was ridiculous in the last hot spell, bracing myself for the next one!
Secateurs for scale! Found while gardening at a client’s Georgian house. Lots of interesting finds here — pottery, pipes, glass — but this one has me stumped. It’s heavy, looks and feels like stone. There is a folly in the garden made from medieval stonework, could it be something to do with that? Or some weird natural splat?
A decade in my garden, from its first year to last summer. Thanks for all the upvotes and kind comments on my other posts — really hoping this works as I’m having zero luck posting multiple photos!
For some reason I can’t post more than one photo, but here is my little paradise at the height of its powers! I keep moving things around…
My courtyard is tiny but I have packed a lot in! You wouldn’t think I was in the centre of a town (if it wasn’t for the pub karaoke)… it’s my little sanctuary. Worth all the hard work so today I’m going to don my bikini and enjoy pottering about in it!