Bits and pieces

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

Can Christams be a new festival?

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 11, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 10, 2013

Gate

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 10, 2013

English group’s party… mostly cake!

Although I spend most of my time writing, I also have other activities, one of which is teaching English conversation as a volunteer with a group of people whose first language is something else. The main objective is communication, and we have lots of different ways in which we practice conversing and communicating; our lessons […]

The Eel Catcher’s Daughter

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 8, 2013

A simply beautiful old church

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 6, 2013December 4, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 4, 2013

Remembering

Everywhere you go in our little island there are war memorials and plaques and boards like the one above commemorating men and women who have given their lives for our country; whatever anyone thinks of war or the rights and wrongs of any situation, the people who were wounded or died suffered terribly, the tragedy […]

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 3, 2013

Out for a jolly!

These workers from a pottery and tile factory were no doubt very pleased that their boss paid for them to go on a day’s outing; I’ve no idea where they are, but no doubt they went their on a train or by a charabanc…The women are sitting together, with the men all around them, but […]