Flower Failure then Detecting Success
FAILURE An agitated friend and secretary of the local Women’s Institute, phoned late one Sunday evening asking if I could help her out. They were due to meet on Wednesday and the speaker, who had been...
View ArticleCoronation Coin and other Souvenirs
A post by ‘DigginDoc’ on the Canadian forum CMDC the other day was the catalyst for this particular post. He had found a commemorative coin (which he called a medallion) that brought back many memories...
View ArticleTin Can Alley
When I was a kid growing up in the 1940’s new toys were few and far between, but we were quite resourceful and spent many happy hours with old, throw-away tin cans. For example, we made holes in the...
View ArticleArtefact Explained
THANK YOU The response to my last post was most encouraging and has given me renewed strength when I was beginning to think that I could/should be doing something more productive. The first time I...
View ArticleShe Didn’t Wear Knickers!
When I was a callow youth – long before I knew Eskimo Nell – I had to do a special study on the books of Jane Austen. At that time female authors were anathema to me and I was less than keen. The genre...
View ArticleThe First Searcher …
The first edition of The Searcher magazine priced at £1.00 was issued in September 1985, almost 27 years ago. Other important UK events that year included … (from Wikipedia) 1 January – The first...
View ArticlePitch & Toss and the Detectorist
Never did I think that as the son of a coal miner growing up in a County Durham pit village in the 40s and 50s, the experience and local knowledge gained would help a fellow detectorist over 60 years...
View ArticleTime Team and Hair Restorer
In English, the term ‘potpourri’ is often thought of as a collection of dried oranges, cinnamon sticks and spices that Cosmopolitan-reading housewives often place in the loo to complement the knitted...
View ArticleStrike a Light!
I derive as much pleasure browsing on market stalls looking for unusual items as I do searching with my metal detector. It also had advantages … there’s never a coffee shop too far away! The last item...
View ArticleGeordie was a Detectorist
First … some sad news Jim Paterson passed away on Friday. Older readers of The Searcher magazine will remember him with great affection. It was under the pseudonym Old Yellowbelly that he wrote for the...
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