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Category: Olde History

scribbles form my past, some of a very long time ago.

cross words on 2

Posted on April 7, 2011November 3, 2020 by Ed Medley

In 1967 I worked part-time as a Special Effects helper on a  TV game show at the Beeb – the  BBC, or British Broadcasting Corporation – where I saw crosswords and heard cross words.

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Trainspotting

Posted on March 22, 2011November 2, 2020 by Ed Medley

“4-6-2!”.”4-4-4!” “Little sod! Bugger off!”. These  expressions  still chuff in my ears 50 or so years after I first heard them, as a  trainspotter. 

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Painted Doors/Painted Ladies

Posted on March 22, 2011November 3, 2020 by Ed Medley

Wallace, in the Silver Valley, in the Coeur d’Alene district of the Idaho Panhandle used to be a very special place for me. Come to think of it, anywhere that blends heart and panhandle and silver should be special and certainly, Wallace has a special place in mon cœur.

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Meares Island – Moist Misery

Posted on September 9, 2010November 3, 2020 by Ed Medley

In the late summer of  1972 I started a job prospecting in the rain at Meares Island, British Columbia.  

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