Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Bits and pieces by Lois

Something about hydrangeas

Gurt lush is a Bristolian expression, and I think it sums up the beauty of hydrangeas completely. I’d often seen the shrubs with their enormous flower heads but didn’t really know what they were called until a German friend told me they were Hortensies… now I always have to struggle to remember they are hydrangeas in […]

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Awwww, cute!

No, it’s not cute, it’s a fire hydrant!! Why do we always want to anthropomorphise inanimate objects? Why does my daughter’s car have a name by which we always address and refer to him – ‘him’, there you go! He is an it – I mean it is an it! Yesterday we went to Taunton, […]

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Knots…

I think I might start a new hobby… tying knots! I was  brownie, and one of the things we had to do was to learn to tie knots, but of course we only tied easy and useful knots, sheep shank, round turn and two half hitches, reef knot and a clove hitch… I can’t say […]

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