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

Pargeting

Pargeting is a term for the decorating of plaster on the outside of old buildings… maybe on the inside too, I’m afraid my knowledge does not extend that far! I’m not sure how old it is, but I would guess that people have always wanted to decorate their houses, and make them look attractive, so I think it is probably as old as the plastering the outside of houses […]

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Hair

I really am not very good with managing my hair .. I guess I’m so busy thinking of other things or doing other things it comes fairly low on my list of priorities. I also think my hair conspires against me, and I have always enjoyed this story, which may be apocryphal, about the politician Shirley Williams, Baroness Williams of […]

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Poor Spain

Earlier this evening I posted about a lovely holiday we had a couple of years ago in Spain; we were with good friends, we had good weather  we ate well, drank well, had a brilliant time. Everywhere looked smart and clean, everyone seemed happy and doing well… but that was several years ago. I was listening to The World Tonight, just after […]

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