Bits and pieces

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

Only the wealthy…

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 9, 2013January 9, 2013

January 8th… a special date?

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 9, 2013January 8, 2013

Tarr Steps repair plan

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 8, 2013November 4, 2014

Running

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 7, 2013September 13, 2018

Fire

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 5, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 5, 2013February 23, 2014

I am a little late in wishing Charles ‘Sox’ Hosegood a happy 92nd birthday! He was a friend on my dad Donald, a fellow golfer at Weston-super-Mare Golf Club and helicopter test pilot. Charles Hosegood, nick-named Sox, served in the Fleet Air Arm during the war and was appointed to the first armed merchant cruiser which was fitted with a catapult. […]

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 3, 2013

All’s well again with WordPress!

Whatever the hiccup before Christmas, WordPress seems to be working beautifully and smoothly again! I can quickly move from page to page, look up stats (and seem to have a more extended cover too) view notifications and start a new post from any page. I know quite a few people commented that they were having annoying difficulties, so […]

Tarr Steps

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 3, 2013January 3, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 1, 2013January 2, 2013

A late cowboy

This obituary was posted in teh Daily telegraph yesterday http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9773265/Bob-Munden.html Bob Munden, who I had never heard of till now, impressed me because of his amazing skills and because as I recently wrote, my childhood was dominated by cowboys. However, what impressed me even more was the paragraph in the obituary below, which described how competetive he was, but […]