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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
Have a nice time dear
As she goes off for a day’s outing with her school friends, mother notes with satisfaction how “good” the navy blue ribbed cardigan looks on her. The gay buttons add a note of contrast. How times change! This book, Knitting For All, was published seventy years ago, just after the war; here is ‘a teenager’, […]
MoreDown by the harbour
A warning to thieves… but raises a smile… This was the van from the little café at the Underfall visitors centre… even if the Underfall Yard was not really, really interesting, it would still be worth going to have a coffee, tea, lunch, breakfast… or yummy cake… or sandwich from Pickle … and on the […]
MoreWar sent the clock whizzing back
To young people now the war is just history, their grandparents were born after the war, sometimes even their great-grandparents were…It truly was a different world, a very different world and here in Britain where food supplies were cut off, husbands, fathers, brothers and sons away fighting and serving abroad and at home, women out […]
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Tree
This remarkable tree is in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton. it is the Tree of Somerset, and it’s carved from oak fwhich was grown on the nearby Quantock Hills; it shows scenes and events from the history of Somerset’s history, but it reminded me of Yggdrasil, the huge mythical tree which connects the nine worlds in Norse cosmology. […]
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Lois Elsden 