who works in the smithy on the forge.

And that is the whole house from the front with the sandstone set off beautifully by the white paint.

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Do you remember Russian nesting dolls? A couple of years back a friend of mine who knew my liking of the Gruffalo children’s books sent me the Gruffalo version of the Matryoska dolls (including a paint brush and paints).
The Fox, the Owl, the Snake, and the Mouse are inside the Gruffalo.






The Cosmic Photo Challenge: One Thing Inside Another
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That’s the war memorial in my home town. It was erected in 1936 and all the dead of world war I were registered. Except for four of them. It you look closely you see the four last ones on this list, not in alphabetical order and slightly different in colour. It’s because they were Jewish Germans who had fought and died alongside their Christian German comrades. During the Nazi era they were not acknowledged. Their names were added in 1946.

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