Category Archives: Beginning life in Hove

from my birth in May 1958 in Lower Market Street, Hove until our family moves to Woodingdean in 1963

A Month of Football

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

Today is the start of the Euro 2016 football tournament. I have always loved football and look forward to the Euro’s every four years. To celebrate this fact I will try to post about football for the rest of the … Continue reading →

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When I was three months old

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

I have been looking through a book of old family photographs and found some of me aged three months. At first I thought this would have been August 1958. But I’m wondering if it might have been a few days earlier, at the … Continue reading →

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2015 in review

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

WordPress have kindly compiled these statistics about my blog during 2015 and it seemed worth sharing with you all. I will shortly be writing my own post about the review of my year on here. Thank you if you are … Continue reading →

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Sitting on Santa’s Knee

Posted on November 26, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

In the current issue of “Yours” magazine (Issue 233, December 2015) you will be able to see me, sitting on Santa’s knee, aged three. I look very uncomfortable, almost scared, but this was one fear I overcame very quickly and … Continue reading →

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Madame Jule de Ryther—Early 20th-century food writer

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

I saw this post today on the blog ‘Chips off the old block’ and really loved the detail in the ingredients listed in the article. John Dinnis (my gg grandfather) and his son George Dinnis (my g grandfather) were professional … Continue reading →

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Funny Photo Friday #9

Posted on October 30, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

Here are some photographs of my finger enjoying time out in Brighton & Hove.  

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Walking on Pebbles

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

Blogging 101 Day Thirteen The challenge today is to pick a blogging event and participate in the next round. These events can be found at dailypost.wordpress.com/ and it would seem Thursday is the day for the weekly photo challenge. The … Continue reading →

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Special Picture # 171 – Possibly oldest film of New York City

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

Originally posted on "Greatest Generation" Life Lessons:
A friend recently sent me this attachment in an email. It may be the oldest surviving footage of New York City in the very early 1900’s. I was fascinated because these…

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Registration is open for August in Blogging U.

Posted on July 28, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

Originally posted on The Daily Post:
Note: this is the same Blogging 101 course previously offered by Blogging U. Feel free to take it again, but be aware that we’ll cover the same topics. Have you just started blogging (welcome!), or are you looking…

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Social Media and the More Mature User

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

Today I added a Facebook Page to my online presence, which should show up on the right hand side of this current homepage. In all honesty, I’m not really sure what a ‘facebook page’ is or what it’s meant to … Continue reading →

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