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 LoisOctober 24, 2013

The Gromit Trail and what it led to

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 22, 2013October 22, 2013

The difference between a good and bad haircut…

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 18, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 16, 2013

Gargoyles

Good heavens! I seem to have stuck my head through a wall!It’s OK for you! I seem to have lost my chin and one of my ears! I’m sure I had two ears and a jaw when I started!

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 15, 2013

Little shepherd boy

I don’t know why I think he’s searching for his sheep, I guess I’m thinking of Little Boy Blue, come blow up your horn!

Don’t I feel an idiot!

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 15, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 14, 2013October 15, 2013

There are many reasons to go to the Lowery in Salford; you can see an exhibition of L.S.Lowry’s paintings, and probably other art exhibitions too, and a theatre and cinema… It was built in 1988 on the site of Pier 8; set in docklands, or former docklands in the city of Salford, it has a […]

Those deckchairs on the Titanic….

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 14, 2013

Figureheads

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 11, 2013October 11, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 10, 2013October 9, 2013

HMS Warrior

HMS Warrior is now permanently docked in Portsmouth; she built as part of a response to the French who were ship-building on a great scale, including the modern iron-clad ships. Warrior was the finest ship yet built, and rendered what the French had built obsolete and was the largest ship in the world at that time. […]