Bits and pieces

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

The Rivals

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 29, 2016

Three types of rain…

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 26, 2016

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 25, 2016September 25, 2016

How to adapt your garden in wartime

The first birthday present my mum gave my dad after they were married was a gardening book; it was called ‘Practical Gardening and Food Production in Pictures’, and she made a very sweet dedication,: To Adam the Gardener from Eve, in expectations of great things, 19.8.48 This edition was published in 1947 but I’m not sure when […]

Storm who?

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 24, 2016

In the playground

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 21, 2016

Buddy car

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 20, 2016

Am I speaking to the man of the house…

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 16, 2016

Don’t use your brakes, change gear

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 8, 2016

Imagine these people

Bits and pieces by LoisSeptember 2, 2016August 28, 2016

Bits and pieces by LoisAugust 30, 2016August 27, 2016

An unknown young woman

This rather fuzzy photo doesn’t do this painting justice… You can find a perfect representation of it if you look; I believe it might be by Sir Joshua Reynolds, painted in about 1755, but she is ‘an unknown young woman’. The painting is quite dull in colour, it looks faded, but maybe that was the angle […]