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The signs were there when Phillip Schofield was reviewing the great Charles III coronation memorabilia on This Morning Live without normal co-host Holly Willoughby present and instead there was celebrity pawnbroker Dan Hatfield. They were there taking a gander at the goods, including our very own Coronation Paperweight with royal cipher. One television industry veteran, me, says: “Now with hindsight...

Have you noticed how men like machines and history, it’s not terribly sexist to say so I don’t think, not that many women don’t too, but we with X and Y chromosomes are especially known for it. Me, I’m an unashamed history buff and I love the skirl of the pipes and a dram of history. So I was interested that they are rebuilding the possibly arson prone replica of an Iron Age village at the Scottish...

Way back when I was student I studied Anglo-Saxon and the whole of this area of subject had only one joke, “The Study of Anglo-Saxon has no future.” Yes them’s the jokes.’ It’s only a joke, because the language had no future tense and in that sense was a fairly primitive language, but at least there were existing texts and books and stories from that age. The word Pict may even be pejorative, as it...

As you can see from the picture there is an actual toad in a hole and the presence of said toad led to a downing of tools by a friend building an extension, because  he is absolutely petrified of toads. Which is more shocking when you know that he is a well built 6 foot 5 inches tall and I’m not sure how he could be more manly!  And it is called Ranidaphobia which is an intense, irrational fear...

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Now I don’t know about you but I doubt I’ll be up at 6 a.m. for the start of the proceedings and as you can tell from writing this I’m not one of those hardy souls already camped out on the Mall in London to get the best perch for the Coronation...

The coronation memorabilia you should buy right now

We were absolutely thrilled to be recommended on ITV’s top morning show, This Morning Live with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield and there the coronation memorabilia you should buy right now and we delighted to see Phillip handling our lovely paperweight and talking about future antiques. And now you can see the interchange on the ITV website...

Now we will be getting big heads if we are not careful. Hot on the heels of being featured on ITV’s This Morning Live in a feature entitled Coronation “Memorabilia Worth Collecting” and our fabulous cut crystal paperweight with the Royal CR cipher designated as a “future antique,” by the ITV show we are in the news again. And it’s not the hit TV show Bridgerton either, even though our glassware is...

As Seen on TV— Our Paperweight Takes Centre Stage

This Morning Live with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield is ITV’s top rated morning show and from 10 am until the arrival of Loose Women  at 12:30 it holds sway over the airways and pulls in a million or more viewers a day.  So when  those one million viewers see Rochelle Hume and Phillip Schofield coo over our product on live TV and Phillip...

The interior of the Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art has been likened to ruined cathedral”  and it is slow going at the moment. While that genuine ruined cathedral and monument to French Culture Notre Dame de Paris is taking shape again rather faster. The latter was promised to be re-built five years after the disastrous fire in 2019 and the work is on schedule for a 2024 rededication...

                                                                                                Spring has sprung the grass has riz

I had the family here at the beach over the Easter weekend, so it was lucky that the weather was so good. The breeze was a little stiff, but we are hardy folk and wrapped up in the colder spells and stripped off in the warmer ones and managed to fit in some garden table...