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

Hero or villain?

I taught this boy many years ago, he must be in his twenties now. He was an interesting lad, but with a solitary side; he never seemed to want friends and yet was lonely. I hope his life has worked out well for him.

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A gloomy autumn afternoon

It wasn’t raining and when we set out the afternoon was quite bright… however the clocks had changed, it’s no longer British summer time but back to GMT so we were slightly later leaving home than we meant to be. We went to the little village of Congresbury, roughly halfway between Weston and Bristol. It’s named after St Congar, nothing to […]

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Brandy for the parson?

To celebrate our anniversary, we went out for dinner and had an excellent meal at The Olde Thatched Cottage, in Weston-super-Mare.Greek meze, sea bass then coffee… oh and a brandy. It must be years and years and years since I had a cognac, whiskey having become my preference; however, I had glimpsed they had Hine behind the bar so I had […]

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