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

Transformed

A hundred years ago this tranquil water would have been a filthy toxic brew; it would have been full of the foulest rubbish, industrial waste, effluent… it would have reeked. The air would have been full of smoke; smoke from the factories and hills, smoke from the trains transporting goods to and from the docks, […]

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Bits and pieces by Lois

Going up

We were walking towards a foot bridge we have crossed many times when we heard a beep-beep-beep-beep, and insistent warning sound. Then we noticed…. the bridge we’ve walked across so many times… was going up!It went up, and up and up, until there was enough room for small ship to pass beneath  

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