https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/06/mike-henbreys-vinegar-valentines/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Thu, 11 Feb 2016 20:25:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/06/mike-henbreys-vinegar-valentines/#comment-984155 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 02:58:26 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136079#comment-984155 Funny! Some these express my thoughts precisely on the whole notion of Valentine’s Day

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/06/mike-henbreys-vinegar-valentines/#comment-981097 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 21:21:44 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136079#comment-981097 Victorian trolling!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/06/mike-henbreys-vinegar-valentines/#comment-980988 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 14:44:48 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136079#comment-980988 Good Lord, these knock being unfriended on Facebook into the shade. And several of them distinctly ribald too. Well, I guess it’s good to be reminded that not all Victorians were into sentimentality!

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2015/07/06/mike-henbreys-vinegar-valentines/#comment-980941 Mon, 06 Jul 2015 11:12:46 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=136079#comment-980941 Interesting. I had never heard of these before, and it seems to me that they tell us more about the person who sent them than about the poor unfortunate recipient!

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