Bits and pieces

Isn’t this beautiful?! I ordered it and it arrived so quickly, and with a nice little personal note! I had seen a picture of it and as I have a ring with the same design, a triple spiral, I thought it would match! The design I think is meant to represent the three ages of […]

Black and white

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 22, 2014October 9, 2017

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 21, 2014March 21, 2014

Hans Fowler Price

Hans price was an architect who changed the face of Weston-super-Mare, designing many of the major buildings in the town. I couldn’t find Hans Fowler Price in any census returns before 1861, although I did find his father George, and sister Selina and brother Henry Meredith. Hans appears again in the 1871 census, no longer […]

Baldomar

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 17, 2014

Time for shorts?

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 8, 2014

Sunshine! Warm sunshine!

Bits and pieces by LoisMarch 1, 2014

Who cares what you look like

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 28, 2014

Push/pull, left/right, on/off

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 27, 2014

Bits and pieces by LoisFebruary 26, 2014February 26, 2014

What is a plowman trundle?

I saw this sign on the side of a building in Bridgwater, Somerset; apparently it was built in the early 1800s and is Flemish-bond cream brick, with stone coping It has twentieth century additions and maybe the sign should actually read ‘W.H.Smith, Plowman and Trundle – Saddler’ – I think! It is a little confusing because […]