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My attempt to explain silver hallmarks
I vividly remember, a few years ago, doing a total house clearance. A nice house in NW London. The deceased dad had been a pipe smoker so most stuff was ruined; pictures, books (of which there were thousands), any soft furnishing, and the hard furnishings, all stank. We could not get th...
07/06/2016
Posted by Paul Hardy
An old tip for keeping silver shiny
My old dad and I didn't really get along that well, we didn't really know each other, but he did teach me one thing in life that I find quite handy. How to keep your silver shiny. I know, as a life lesson its not much to be going on, but at least I've got a blog post out of it. He...
28/06/2016
Posted by Paul Hardy
Its that lockdown post
I feel the pressure. I wish I could say I feel the popular demand, but my reader has not been inundating me with postcards (have you Mrs Trellis?) so I can't claim that. But I do see that nearly everyone is posting about Lockdown and its my turn. I am notorious for following a trend lon...
28/04/2020
Posted by Paul Hardy
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