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

Romany

As a child I loved listening to the radio, especially Children’s Hour; the programme contained a wide variety of different items, drama, adventures, factual, historical… I owe that programme so much in how it educated me. One of the programmes was presented by ‘Romany’ and imagine my surprise while on holiday recently in Sandsend when […]

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What can he see?

This is part of the frieze around the lovers statue in St Pancras Station, actually called Meeting Place. It shows a typical scene from a busy commuter train, maybe an underground, maybe just an ordinary railway train. You can see a typical cross-section of people, some asleep, some reading newspapers, some just gazing into the […]

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Hostas… or funkia?

I really do not like hostas, really…. but wait… these are rather lovely…. maybe I should think again! There are over 25 species of them, maybe I have only met the 24 varieties I did not like! I think I like them a little more now I have learnt they used to be called funkia.

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If not an Ent then maybe an Enting

J.R.R. Tolkien brought Ents to us in The Lord of the Rings, a race of mighty beings similar to trees; Entwives are females, Entings are the young. Woods are mysterious places and sometimes you come across trees which seem to be watching, seem to have life in a non-tree like way and have paused to […]

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Shepherd… or is he from Middle Earth?

While in the Netherlands, we came across this shepherd and his flock and three dogs; two dogs were working, one was retired because he was deaf but still accompanied his master and sheep. The sheep were grazing in woodland, and not being fattened for meat but were cropping the undergrowth to keep the woodland in […]

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