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

Struggling with Gaelic

I’ve been learning Gaelic for nearly five years now, and I do enjoy it and have made some great friends and we do have fun… but really I’m not getting to grips with it somehow. I confess that I don’t work on it as much as I used to, I used to do half an […]

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Green man 2

I wrote something in April about the Green Man, a figure of mystery and myth, whose origins are varied and very old. I mentioned that he crops up when you least expect him, and as we were driving home from buying paint to redecorate, we were stopped at some traffic lights. I noticed a little […]

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Chimneys

In tehse days of central heating it is difficult to imagine what it would have been like to have had fires burning in every room – if you could afford it! These days people love having an open fire, or a nice wood-burning stove, but imagine if every day you had to clean out the […]

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The soft and squidgy side to war

I couldn’t help but smile on today’s editorial comment in the Daily Telegraph about the report that aircraft crews during the war had had to contend with other difficulties than what might be expected: The Sixties were a tense time for the pilots and crews of V bombers, the RAF’s strategic nuclear strike aircraft. At […]

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