Tag Archives: fireplace

Trixie

Friday 28th November 2025, 4.40pm (day 5,209)

Trixie by fire, 28/11/25

Mulling over the choices for today’s photo I said to Clare, “Is this one a bit too pathetic?”, and she replied, “maybe, but it sums her up quite well, it’s Trixie’s role to look neurotic and a bit pathetic”. This is true — except when a strange dog dares to approach her, then she turns very territorial. She hogs the fire, too. But of course we know all these things about her because she’s part of the pack.

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Hugo portrait

Tuesday 13th February 2024, 5.20pm (day 4,555)

Hugo portrait, 13/2/24

Hugo’s third appearance on here, and all within the last twelve months. As Clare has just said to me, he is an ‘ugly little thing’, but still, endearing. Definitely one of the pub pack, anyway.

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This winter’s fire

Thursday 9th November 2023, 5.20pm (day 4,459)

New fire, 9/11/23

The fire in the pub has been lit some two or three weeks earlier than last year. This is a good thing.

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Spiderplace

Thursday 2nd June 2022, 6.00pm (day 3,934)

Spider on grate, 2/6/22

The second picture in a row to show another inhabitant of our living room that has more legs than Clare and I put together. Perhaps we should clean our now-unused fire grate a little more often, but now this beastie has moved in, we could let it lie for a while longer.

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The old fireplace in the attic

Sunday 5th January 2014, 7.00pm (day 864)

Old fireplace, 5/1/14

More Victorian architecture. But because I had to start work again today after my Christmas break, I never left the house, and because I live in a piece of it, Victorian architecture is what you get.

However, there is some additional relevance to the picture, which is that after about a week of heroic house clearance and trips to the tip, sorry, ‘Household Waste Recycling Centre’, this old fireplace is actually visible again for the first time in about two years. Not to mention the floor of this room. Worth documenting, then, in my opinion….

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