THERE WILL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND DEP'T: Our cruise director, during the port brief for the next day's adventures, pointed out with ...

  Departing for the Adriatic tomorrow.  Blogging will be intermittent for a while.  (The dog-sitter has been engaged, and the boys are not p...

 

 

 

  Does anyone know of any good yarn shops in Athens?

  From the September, 1950 issue of Workbasket magazine, a delicate motif in thread crochet for a tablecloth or dresser scarf. This is from ...

  Happy birthday to the branch nobody remembers until some damn fool rents a powerboat and sinks it.

    Why I am taking vacation when technically I am always on vacation?  Oldest sister is arriving today and we'll be hitting the fleshpo...

 We will be under a "heat dome" until Thursday.

 

  I ate healthy, I didn't drink or smoke...and then my reward was to watch everyone around me die.  So go ahead, get the French fries in...

 

  "Hildegarde Lives in Holland," a paper doll from Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1925.  The entire year's issues as a ...

  image from FB

 

 

 

  A child's blazer-style sweater with contrasting trim, from Modern Knitting , Summer 1952. Left-click to enlarge.

  image from the Graphics Fairy When the heat like a mist veil floats, And poppies flame in the rye, And the silver note in the streamlet...