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

Bonfire Night… again…

As it’s November 5th, Bonfire Night, I think I’ll share something I wrote last year… We don’t have fireworks any more, our children have left home, but we see plenty from our windows! As a child we had a long enough garden to have a bonfire in the empty vegetable patch; the lady who owned our […]

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Mr Miller

Max Miller was born in 1894 in Brighton and he was one of the big names in variety theatre and music hall, but he was very much of his time, and by the time he died when he was sixty-eight, already that style of comedy was waning… or was it? There are aspects of comedy […]

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Lemco

I’m not sure many people will have heard of Lemco today, but most people will have heard of and possibly eaten Fray Bentos corned beef. I like corned beef, just as it is, my husband loves it in corned beef hash; I’m sure everyone who makes hash has their own recipe, some involving potatoes, some […]

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Women made beautiful by Diano…

This mysterious treatment was advertised in The Sphere in 1900. By 1904 this extraordinary but secret treatment was discussed in an article in ‘Weldon’s Ladies Journal’, entitled, ‘There is no power like the magnetism of curves’… well I should be pretty powerful as I have plenty, more than enough curves, although I have never known any […]

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