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 LoisAugust 2, 2014

Edible ornament

Ornamental cabbages are very popular in municipal displays…. I hope they get harvested and eaten!

Sea weed

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 2, 2014

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 1, 2014August 1, 2014

A pair of scissors is an everyday tool of which there must be at least one in everyone’s house… and they come in all different shapes and sizes used for different things… from dress-making, to food preparation, to craftwork, to opening those wretched sealed packages… I came across a little feature about scissor making…

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 30, 2014

That strange time at dusk

I think the hours when night changes to day, and day changes to night are very strange when you are outside… the sky seems to take on an odd quality, even if its odd in a nice way, a sunny day disappearing into a pleasant evening. Hamlet talks about ‘witching times’ meaning the deepest darkest […]

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 30, 2014July 30, 2014

Beast!

I have no interest in motorbikes, don’t want one, don’t want to ride one, don’t want to be a passenger on one… but I must admit I like all the bright shiny chromey bits!

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 29, 2014

Juxtaposition

Sometimes you see two unexpected colours against each other and they just seem to work… I’m not an artist and so I don’t know anything about the theory of colour, and maybe the colours I saw adjacent to each other in the walled garden at Knightshayes Court are a classic match… I saw these clumps […]

Within easy reach?

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 28, 2014

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 27, 2014

Sunny Knightshayes

Knightshayes Court near Tiverton in North Devon is a stately home under the ownership of the National Trust. There is a wonderful and very interesting house, a shop full of delights, a tearoom, and beautiful gardens. We spent our afternoon having a picnic in the parkland, and then wandered round the walled garden.

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 27, 2014

Friendly geese

Geese have a reputation for being fierce and aggressive, in fact they have been used as watch ‘dogs’ because they can be so fierce and vicious! This friendly foursome came rushing across their paddock to the fence to chat to us, and they had a fine old cackle. The brown ones had gorgeous blue eyes, […]

Bits and pieces by LoisJuly 25, 2014

What lies beyond?

Don’t you just want to go up this couple of steps, taking care not to slip or trip on the ivy, and don’t you just want to look over the gate and see what is beyond? A neglected cottage, or a pretty garden, loved and cared for, and only this gate no longer used. It […]