Bits and pieces

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

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 […]

Bits and pieces by LoisJanuary 1, 2013

2012 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 15,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 3 Film Festivals Click here to see the complete report.

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 29, 2012September 20, 2013

The numbers of the year 2012

I was listening to Radio 4 and caught the tail end of the numbers programme ‘More or Less’; it’s not something I usually listen to, but it’s not a programme I would turn off. I was intrigued by a little item about important numbers for 2012, so for example there was 17, the least number of clues you need to […]

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 29, 2012December 29, 2012

Irish Word a Day

Every day I get an Irish word emailed to me… this is all part of my attempt to learn Gaelic which I have been struggling with for several years. Talk Irish, Labhair Gaeilge is a great site to help people learn Gaelic! http://talkirish.com/ Today’s word is ‘ceol‘, music, and if I link to the page […]