It certainly does look like something to do with shoes or boots - try contacting Northampton Museums.

Any clues from your late father's job and hobbies?

Good luck.

Steve

Was 30 days ago before or after the start of lockdown?? It's hard enough to remember what day of the week it is today...

The delayed op is made worse because it's a repeat (an upgrade) of one last year that went seriously wrong and ended up with Mrs L spending a few weeks in hospital with pneumonia (we knew the risks, sometimes the unlucky one is you...). Having had a close encounter with pneumonia has made us very wary of Covid-19. On the other hand, lockdown just seems like a minor inconvenience compared with this time last year!

But clouds have silver linings. I started posting to this forum last year as a diversion from what was going on closer to home. No regrets at all!

Steve

Same here, not on the NHS list but a medical condition that's been getting worse for some time. Only leaving the house for medical appointments and I have to drive. Must now keep out of the sun due to new medication. Due for an op but that's now not going to happen until goodness knows when.

Mustn't complain, though - decent house, decent garden, financially OK, good friends and neighbours, kids keeping an eye on us from afar (and vice versa:wink. And this is all happening at a time when it's so easy to keep in touch with people. Hard to imagine what it would be like if a plague had hit 30 years ago.

Steve

A warm, still evening a couple of days ago. The usual dog walk. There had been noise from the fields for much of the day. And this was the cause of it.




It was going to and fro in a dust cloud of its own making. Sometimes it was almost impossible to see the tractor through the dust. Note the streak of light on the soil from the low sun...




Then on one turn, the sun, dust cloud and tractor came together...




I was giving an old film-era lens a walk, just to see what it would do. F35-80mm f4-5.6, not exactly everyone's favourite, but it did a reasonable job for this unexpected encounter with someone not working at home and maintaining social distancing...

Who says doing the same walk every day is just plain boring??

Steve

The NOT much of anything this weekend...

But the local butcher has just phoned and agreed a order with Mrs Lubbyman, so there will be a delivery of beef to the doorstep.

Which reminds me of a quote I stumbled across a couple of days ago: “See that ye keep a noble house for beef and beer, that thereof may be praise given to God and to your honour.” Advice given to Leonard, titular sixth Lord Dacre, in 1570. Sounds to me like good advice.

Steve

My learning curve's a couple of weeks ahead of yours!

Steve

No orange tip on the wings of a female Orange Tip, either. Only the male has the orange tip. It looks like yours has a mottled pattern on the outer wing surface (i.e. under the wing when outstretched), characteristic of a female Orange Tip. Here's one that's definitely a female Orange Tip - confirmed by an expert friend because I wasn't sure what it was .




Steve

I like 'em - even the 'differently processed' ones.

No. 10 - Female orange tip?

Steve

Don't forget that if your vehicle is stolen or damaged while not insured, you're on your own unless it's covered by another policy.

Steve

Too late, I've just had a Piddle.

Steve