Bits and pieces

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

More from the boatyard…

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 3, 2012September 15, 2018

Monster!

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 2, 2012October 11, 2013

Bits and pieces by LoisOctober 1, 2012

Thank you!!

Thanks to every one who has been reading my blog – September has been my best month so far!

Baskets 2

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 30, 2012September 30, 2012

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 30, 2012

A silly mistake led me back to this poem which I haven’t read since I was much much younger: Mushrooms Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving […]

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 29, 2012

Grill

This extremely fancy and very old grill, measuring about 40cm by 60cm, maybe slightly smaller, is set into a very old wall in Bridgwater, just near the River Parrett. I’ve no idea what the building might have been; the grill looks as if it was put there for ventilation rather as a secure window so maybe this was an old warehouse […]

Joseph Wright of Derby

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 28, 2012February 16, 2024

Autumn

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 26, 2012

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 25, 2012September 25, 2012

Nothing sadder than a wrecked boat

We live very near the sea; the River Axe runs into the Severn Channel by Uphill, our village, and many people have boats moored there or in the marina. No-one is supposed to live on their boats here, but someone did and incurred some fines. Rather than pay them he either tried to head out to sea, or deliberately grounded […]

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 22, 2012

Travelling home…

Carrickfergus is a large and the oldest town in County Antrim. On our recent trip to Ireland we called in for lunch on our way back to the airport. It had been a showery day, but the sun came out as we found a nice place by the harbour to have lunch. We had taken the coast road, through Ballycastle, and through […]