Bits and pieces

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

Red cars swarming!

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 5, 2012November 19, 2019

Bits and pieces by LoisDecember 4, 2012December 4, 2012

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 […]

500… wow!!

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 30, 2012September 20, 2013

Lucky black cat

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 29, 2012April 15, 2018

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 28, 2012October 9, 2017

Handsome beasts

I adore the horses from the Jollity Farm fairground ride! If I had enough money I would buy one.

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 28, 2012August 5, 2013

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 […]

End of term

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 27, 2012November 27, 2012

Wandering around…

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 25, 2012September 10, 2018

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 25, 2012November 25, 2012

Tin pan alley?

We saw this in Bristol… it just amused us!

Bits and pieces by LoisNovember 23, 2012September 20, 2013

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 […]