Bits and pieces

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

Accidental snap

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 17, 2014October 8, 2017

Teazle

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 14, 2014

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 7, 2014

Tiles

Everywhere we went in Spain we saw the most lovely tiles… I couldn’t help but stop and photograph them, and exclaim how wonderful they were each time I saw them… Much to the amusement of my family!

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 3, 2014October 8, 2017

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 […]